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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:46:32 -0500
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- From: Mark Van Overbeke <MARK@UMMVXM.MRS.UMN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Pathworks & MACs
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- >From: IN%"DECTEI-L@UBVM.BITNET" "DEC's The Education Initiative Discussion Li
- st" 12-AUG-1992 13:25:07.55
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- >Subj: Pathworks & MACs
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- >Greetings.
- >
- >We are planning a MAC lab (15 MAC IIsi with ethernet cards and no hard
- >drives) to be placed on a Pathworks network so they would boot and load
- >their software from a VAX server. Has anyone done it before? Any comments?
- >
- >
-
- This may be of some help. We are not running Pathworks for the file server of
- volume server part of the software. We are able to downline load an image to
- the mac from either our VAX using the Multinet software and bootp, or from our
- DECstation 5000/240 using bootp. I don't believe we have tried the IIsi yet,
- but we have this working with about 10 LC II's. We have had not problems
- getting to our other mac servers and using the software like normal. We have
- even been able to use the Mathematica front end to run on a remote kernal. Be
- aware if you are not already, this all take a lot of memory on the mac. We
- have our LC II's configured with about 10Mb of memory and not much is left
- after we get the image loaded. This image is System 7 with the Mathematica
- stuff included in the image. This image is about 5 Mb which leaves about 5Mb
- of memory for normal system work. The system 6.0.7/8 image is a bit smaller.
-
- Mark Van Overbeke Systems Software Programmer
- Behmler Hall, Room 10C (612) 589-6378
- E. 4th Street and College Ave. BITNET: Mark@UMNMOR.BITNET (VMS)
- University of Minnesota, Morris INTERNET: Mark@caa.mrs.umn.edu (VMS)
- Morris, MN 56267 mark@cda.mrs.umn.edu (Ultrix)
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