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- From: grw@cartan.tmc.edu (George R. Wilkens)
- Subject: PowerBook 170 <--> Ethernet <--> Sun ..... HELP
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.012439.23161@news.Hawaii.Edu>
- Sender: root@news.Hawaii.Edu (News Service)
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- Organization: University of Hawaii Mathematics Department
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 01:24:39 GMT
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- Hey gang,
-
- We have a new faculty member in our department who is a Mac person.
- I am very happy about this, because I love Macs, too. Our department is
- very heavily Sun oriented, so when our new faculty member requested a Mac
- PowerBook 170 for his office instead of a Sun SPARCstation, my life became
- more complicated.
-
- Our new faculty member wants to be able to hook his PB 170 to our
- Sun ethernet network. He mainly wants to use the Sun network for e-mail,
- and would like a friendly mail tool like the Sun OpenWindows mailtool program.
-
- I am appealing to the collective (Borg) net wisdom for help.
- Here are a couple of questions.
-
- 1. Does anyone make an ethernet card for a PB 170? I doubt that anyone does,
- but you never know.
-
- 2. If I can not put an ethernet card in the PB 170, can I use an
- Apple Talk <---> Ethernet bridge?
-
- As you can probably tell, I am really just asking for suggestions.
- Solutions in many price ranges will be considered. In terms of a mail
- tool, can someone suggest one that works well with UNIX mail systems?
- Thanks a lot gang.
-
- Mahalo & Aloha Nui Loa,
-
- --George
-
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- George Wilkens | INTERNET: grw@math.hawaii.edu
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