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- From: bern@Uni-Trier.DE (Jochen Bern)
- Subject: LOTS of Questions ...
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- Organization: Theor. CS, FB IV / CS, Univ. of Trier, Germany (Internet TI.Uni-Trier.DE)
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:47:01 GMT
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- Dear fellow SUN Admins, my Boss has told me to start thinking about my
- Wishes concerning this Year's Budget Spending before HE starts wishing
- in my Place. I have put together some Ideas, but found that I need some
- more Information on several Products, and I fear that my Time is run-
- ning out. :-) (I don't blame my Boss, he is running out of Time with
- this, too.)
-
- Here are my Questions:
-
- 1) (SPARCstations) I'm thinking about a Backup Power Supply. I found
- out how much Power ELCs and HDs consume, and I
- think that 1/4" Streamers and CDs won't use more
- than 50 Watts, but what's the Current my SPARC-
- station 2 Clone draws like? And how much will be
- drawn by a SBus Expansion Box? (I've got all SBus
- Slots used, but only the SPARCprinter Card has a
- Connection to the "World outside".)
-
- 2) (DAT Drives) Same Question: How much Power gets used?
- (Suppose a HP 35480 A Drive in a Desktop Box,
- both Standby and running)
-
- 3) (X-Stations) Having X-Stations or diskless Clients is a Question
- of Console <-> Application Data Flow Amount vs.
- Application <-> Disk Data Flow Amount (my Server
- is empty enough to handle several XStats). Any
- Experience about where the Equilibrium is?
-
- 4) (X-Stations) Can I have the SUN's Window Manager "take over"
- the XStat's Window Manager, like I can have the
- DECwindows Session Manager taking over my OW Sun?
- (What I really want to know is: Do I get the
- Openwindows Window Frames, their Menu, and the
- Workspace Menu, or am I stuck with the XStat's
- Replacements for this?)
-
- 5) (NeWSprint 2.0) Does the NeWSprint 2.0 HP DeskJet 500 Option
- (black&white) handle a 500 C (Color), too?
-
- 6) (HP PostScript Card) I'm going to get a HP III si with PS Level 2
- Card. Supposed I buy a PaintJet XL 300, which
- CAN use the same Card, can I have the Card moved
- as easy as a Floppy for an occasional Print on
- the XL 300, or does this involve "hard Hat" Work?
-
- 7) (SPARC Laptops) We need a SUN-like Computer which can be taken
- elsewhere to run Demos of our Software. 'Til now,
- we use an ELC with 40 MB RAM, a 600 MB Disk, and
- a 1/4" Streamer (just in Case :-). This is quite
- a Burden. However, the HDs of SPARC Laptops I've
- seen are quite small (120-240 MB). Do you know
- about
- a) Laptops with bigger HDs built in,
- b) Laptops with SCSI Interface built in, and/or
- c) other Drawbacks of Laptops than Disk Space?
- (I can't restrict the Type of Software we will
- have to demonstrate, sorry.)
-
- 8) (NFS in 4.1.2) I've heard that in the very Moment when a Filesys-
- tem gets exported with more than 10 Clients named
- as allowed for Mounting, NFS erroneously allows
- ALL (local) Nodes to mount the FS. Is this true?
- If yes, are there any Workarounds or Patches
- available?
-
- Thanks for your Time,
- J. Bern
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