New uses for old 8000 servers?

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1 total messages Started by "G. Nigel Gilbert" Thu, 01 Sep 1994 05:19

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Author: "G. Nigel Gilbert"
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 1994 05:19

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We have an 8000 server, an 8040 laser printer, and a 300 Mbyte 'Trident' (?)
disk attached to the server.  The server is on an Ethernet which is also
used by Suns (and Macs).

Although we used to do lots of work on our 4 1186s, that project has now
ended and we don't anticipate continuing work with them; besides the
1186 screens are in a poor way (bad focus, dead, etc).

What we'd like to do is to continue to use the 8000 server and in particular
the 300 Mb disk, accesing it from our Suns (one SparcStation 1, one 386i).
The Suns do NOT run Interlisp-D (they are mainly used for Quintus prolog).

Questions:  Is there code which would allow the Suns to make use of the
8000 filestore in a manner which would make it appear like any (NFS
mountable) volume?  If not, is there any other way we could make use of
the server/filestore?

Is there any use we could make of the printer?

-- or do I have to bow to the inevitable, pull the plug and get the scrap
merchant to take the server and printer away (that would be a sad day).

Thanks

Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, UK

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