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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 11:04:56 -0500
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- From: bob molerio <p00035@PSILINK.COM>
- Subject: Re: Connecting DOS box to RS6K (AIX)
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- I've heard the using 3rd party IBM RS\6000 vars instead of IBM can be risky.
- How well are your field personnel trained and do you have an office in NYC?
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- >DATE: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:00:28 GMT
- >FROM: 'Imaging Club' <IMAGING.CLUB@OFFICE.WANG.COM>
- >
- >Regarding the discussion that has been going on here about connecting
- >PCs to RS/6000s, this configuration is the standard client/server model
- >we at the new Wang Labs are now shipping to our customers. The idea is
- >that there are millions of installed PCs on desktops and these users can
- >now be upgraded to having an RS/6000 POWER server, allowing them to
- >preserve and enhance their existing PC investments (and applications).
- >You can contact the Wang RS/6000 professionals in any of our offices
- >worldwide for further information, or to have them do the actual
- >installation. The new Wang Labs is a RS/6000 global services provider,
- >offering complete RS/6000 life cycle services from needs analysis to
- >multi-vendor hardware and software service. The Wang RS/6000-PC
- >professionals can perform the following RS/6000 implementation services:
- >pre-installation software planning, configure TTYs and printers in
- >SMIT, setup user profiles, establish security access, establish
- >logical volumes and file systems, setup CRON jobs for backups,
- >and perform full system BACKUPs and BOSboot diskettes, for example.
- >A typical Wang activity would be installing MS Windows on the PC
- >clients and customizing the menus, as another example.
- >
- >Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com
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