Re: IIgs power supply question

[herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Herbert Fung)]

Previously lstrand@clyde.ics.uci.edu (Leif Strand) wrote:
 
>In article <sX7Jwc3w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>,
>Herbert Fung <herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:
>>You can indeed boot over a Macintosh (though not through a ProDOS
>>partition), but you need AppleShare and I think that costs around
>>$1500.00US. It would be cheaper to buy a SCSI card and hard drive for
>>your GS
>
>I thought System 7 had built-in filesharing; in other words, you could
>share files amongst Macs on a network without a dedicated file server
>(running the expensive AppleShare file server software).  Am I right
>about this?
 
Yes, you are correct. System 7 allows for filesharing only.
 
>Or is it that you need the dedicated server software to _boot_ the GS
>over the network (as opposed to simply sharing files)?
 
This is correct. The originator of this thread asked about booting his GS
through his Mac. Of course the other alternative is to boot off a floppy
and log onto the Mac and run programs from it's hard drive.

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Herbert Fung   herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca   
Edmonton Remote Systems   Serving Edmonton/Northern Alberta since 1982