Aittvax.312
net.lan
utzoo!decvax!ittvax!swatt
Fri Apr 30 11:10:15 1982
Re: info wanted on omninet
I have no experience with OMNINET, but I just got back from a
California trip where I visited Corvus. In-house they have
numerous Apples using central Corvus disks accessed over
OMNINET. The Apples never know they don't have a local disk.
There are also central print servers.
Doug Broyles (formerly of ONYX) claims there is file server
software which manages one or more hard disks, and provides
multiuser protection for any number of different Apple users
sharing the same disk.
They also have a feature which I would LOVE to see for minis and
super-minis: videotape backup. They currently have running as
part of their disk system a backup system using standard
vidoetape cassette recorders. The current density is 100MB per
tape with a recording rate of about 1 MB/minute. They expect to
be able to quadruple that still using standard transports and
cassettes, so a tape will hold 400MB with a recording rate of 4
MB/minute. I'm not crazy about the rate, but at the cost of the
transports, you can afford to have 3 or 4 of them and still be
way ahead of even a cheap 9-track transport.
- Alan S. Watt
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