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Our university is in the process of establishing a campus-wide network
backbone capable of linking our mainframes, PCs, and Macs.  Our primary
interest is to provide email access for all our users, but (transparent)
file sharing is also of interest to us.  We realize that what we may want
to do may not even be possible at this time, so that is why we're asking
lots of questions.

My question to the net is this:  How well do Mac's co-exist in an ethernet
environment with other ethernet hosts, such as Vax's and Suns.  If we run
ethertalk over ethernet cabling, can we also use TCP/IP on the same cabling
or is ethertalk and TCP/IP incompatible.  What are other sites doing to
link Mac's to mainframe networks?  Is there a product which will link
PCs, Macs, and Vax/VMS already available?  We know about TOPS, but don't
think it is very well suited to a student environment.

Lots of questions, hopefully some answers.  Thanks.

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