Toaster network ?
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John,
I have a few questions for ya about the TSS net products that your
company sells… My company is a Novell Gold level networking company and
the Amiga is our platform of choice for low end unix and multimedia
(toasters!). Our toughest problem to date has been finding solid network
solutions for the amiga to let it interact across the Netware environment.
Specifically I am interested in;
TCP/IP and NFS access for the Amiga to Netware 3.11 file servers. Amiga
access to AppleTalk networks – phases 1 and 2
Also, as a developer, how modular is the Amigas' operating system ? Keep in
mind that when I think of a modular operating system I think of Netware
3.11 with it's dynamically configured o.s. and NLMs.
Using your product would it be possible to offer Amiga users access to
client server databases (using SuperBase 4 as the front end) ?
Thanks…
Hmm. You didn't mention anything about DECnet. Our TSSnet product is a
DECnet for the Amiga, and there are DECnets available for the PC and Mac,
too. Everyone is searching for nice, seamless integration of those widely
disparate environments, and there is no solution that please everyone. Our
Amiga DECnet does provide file sharing between any other nodes, but we do
not have a file system device, meaning, you use CLI commands to copy files
from place to place. You don't get a new device "DEC:" that accesses the
network. So it's not quite transparent. It is a lot like what DECnet
users see on a VAX or PC or Mac, and that's what we provided.
There is no NFS server software for an AmigaDOS machine. So, you're stuck
as a client to some other machine acting as a server. Plus you have 'ftp'
file-copying-type access.
I've heard about Progressive's DoubleTalk that operates at AppleTalk
speeds. It can provide a file-system level interface to Macs.
As for SuperBase, unfortunately, no – again, the file system issue crops up
again. Beyond its absence, there's another problem – record locking.
Until Oxxi ships real Novell client software for the Amiga, you're stuck
without it.