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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.