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>How much of the 8000 servers can we keep to serve the Suns?

All of it, with the caveat that the 8000's have to be able to get XNS
packets to/from the Suns.  One sort of Sun configuration is to put the
clients off of one ethernet port on the server, with another ethernet
port connected to the backbone net. This keeps the server-client
traffic isolated from the rest of the ethernet, which is critical if
you're using diskless suns (IMHO a *bad* thing for running lisp). This
will not work without some extra cost/effort, and even then I'm not
sure it's possible, but if you use an appropriate router to seperate your
networks, it's fine.

If the 8000's and the Suns are on the same network or are on different
networks that can pass XNS through the gateways, then you're fine, you
don't need anything else.

>  And  specifically, can the 8040 laser printer (an Interpress printer)
>be used with the Suns?

Yup. Just use your favorite method of getting to the printer
(Hardcopyw, send.file.to.printer, etc). Works fine. The Medley-S fonts
are *exacty* the same. Same font files, etc. I've shipped them back
and forth without any problems. If you're into it, you even get Kanji
fonts with the sun software by default, something that you don't with
the 1100 font set. If you want to use the 8040 from other unix
utilities like TeX, you need to be able to produce Interpress files,
and use an xns print spooler under unix. Or, if you're willing to
dedicate a dlion to act as a print spooler, we've got an lpr client
somewhere around here that will spool to the XNS printer.


...arun