PC's as UNIX Terminals with Remote Printing

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <1989Oct8.001000.23260 at mccc.uucp> pjh at mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>Hello, networld!  Next semester, I will be replacing all the terminals
>on my 3B2/400 with Zenith (Bull?) ATs.  UNIX and C classes will use the
>ATs as terminals, but MSDOS applications classes will use them as
>stand-alone PCs.  

>The 3B2 has the only printer in the lab connected to tty55.  I would
>like the MSDOS people to be able to send files to that printer without
>having to learn how to log in to a Unix system.  I'm open to every level
>of suggestion.  That is, I would like a Pascal programmer to be able to do

>	C:\TP> lp example3.pas
	
>and have that file be printed by the 3B2.

The best way to do this would be to use AT&T's Starlan network along with
the Starlan Dos Server software, using the 3B2 as a file and print
server and the PC's as clients.  This gives you the transparent access
you want to the printer (disk files as well), and you can also log in
over the net for terminal emulation without needing another set of
wires.  Both 1M and 10M versions of starlan are available.  They both
run over twisted pair, but the 1M version allows daisy-chaining up
to 10 units while the 10M version requires direct runs from a hub unit
to each station.  If you have other 3B2's, you can provide RFS/uucp/
remote logins over the same net.

AT&T used to sell something called "PC interface" that did something
similar over serial lines, but the speed restriction made it pretty
much unusable.

Les Mikesell