From: bern@Uni-Trier.DE (Jochen Bern)
Subject: LOTS of Questions ...
Originator: bern@kleopatra
Organization: Theor. CS, FB IV / CS, Univ. of Trier, Germany (Internet TI.Uni-Trier.DE)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:47:01 GMT

Dear fellow SUN Admins, my Boss has told me to start thinking about my
Wishes concerning this Year's Budget Spending before HE starts wishing
in my Place. I have put together some Ideas, but found that I need some
more Information on several Products, and I fear that my Time is run-
ning out. :-) (I don't blame my Boss, he is running out of Time with
this, too.)

Here are my Questions:

1) (SPARCstations)	I'm thinking about a Backup Power Supply. I found
			out how much Power ELCs and HDs consume, and I
			think that 1/4" Streamers and CDs won't use more
			than 50 Watts, but what's the Current my SPARC-
			station 2 Clone draws like? And how much will be
			drawn by a SBus Expansion Box? (I've got all SBus
			Slots used, but only the SPARCprinter Card has a
			Connection to the "World outside".)

2) (DAT Drives)		Same Question: How much Power gets used?
			(Suppose a HP 35480 A Drive in a Desktop Box,
			both Standby and running)

3) (X-Stations)		Having X-Stations or diskless Clients is a Question
			of Console <-> Application Data Flow Amount vs.
			Application <-> Disk Data Flow Amount (my Server
			is empty enough to handle several XStats). Any
			Experience about where the Equilibrium is?

4) (X-Stations)		Can I have the SUN's Window Manager "take over"
			the XStat's Window Manager, like I can have the
			DECwindows Session Manager taking over my OW Sun?
			(What I really want to know is: Do I get the
			Openwindows Window Frames, their Menu, and the
			Workspace Menu, or am I stuck with the XStat's
			Replacements for this?)

5) (NeWSprint 2.0)	Does the NeWSprint 2.0 HP DeskJet 500 Option
			(black&white) handle a 500 C (Color), too?

6) (HP PostScript Card)	I'm going to get a HP III si with PS Level 2
			Card. Supposed I buy a PaintJet XL 300, which
			CAN use the same Card, can I have the Card moved
			as easy as a Floppy for an occasional Print on
			the XL 300, or does this involve "hard Hat" Work?

7) (SPARC Laptops)	We need a SUN-like Computer which can be taken
			elsewhere to run Demos of our Software. 'Til now,
			we use an ELC with 40 MB RAM, a 600 MB Disk, and
			a 1/4" Streamer (just in Case :-). This is quite
			a Burden. However, the HDs of SPARC Laptops I've
			seen are quite small (120-240 MB). Do you know
			about
			a) Laptops with bigger HDs built in,
			b) Laptops with SCSI Interface built in, and/or
			c) other Drawbacks of Laptops than Disk Space?
			(I can't restrict the Type of Software we will
			have to demonstrate, sorry.)

8) (NFS in 4.1.2)	I've heard that in the very Moment when a Filesys-
			tem gets exported with more than 10 Clients named
			as allowed for Mounting, NFS erroneously allows
			ALL (local) Nodes to mount the FS. Is this true?
			If yes, are there any Workarounds or Patches
			available?

Thanks for your Time,
								J. Bern
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