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>My Mac is running diskless, ie my system resides on one of the Sun servers.
>Tops for Sun make the Suns into a Mac Fileserver but importantly (at least to
>us) it allows the Suns to access all the Laserwriters on AppleTalk, which
>the PCs and Macs also access.  We are using IDEs Software Through Pictures
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>Alan Heflich
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>Internet  Heflich @ Dockmaster.arpa
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I am curious about the diskless Mac workstation.  Does TOPS allow a Mac to
boot without any inserted disks? I was under the impression that that was
not possible with a networked device, that there had to be some sort of
local hard disk to boot from before a mac can access the Appletalk network.
Even if this is possible, it seems to me that it would only be suitable
if the workstations had a direct ethernet link to the file server.  I
can't imagine how slow a Mac would be if it tried to access a system
folder over 232K bps Appletalk.

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