Available CD-ROMS for Suns...

[bernard at prlb.philips.be]

Some time ago, i've posted an article asking for a catalog of available
Cd-ROMS for Sun workstations. Well, a lot of e-mails from people who would
like that i send them interesting informations i would receive...  but,
until now, only one answer about some real cd-rom disks (see below) apart
from the Sun disks with SunOS and Catalyst.

So, if we want to use on Suns all the ISO9660 and High-Sierra cd-roms
written for PC (e.g.  Oxford dictionary, Robert dictionary for French
speacking people,...)  before publishers/editors make Sun/Unix versions or
their executable, an intermediate solution could be based on one of the PC
emulator (soft or hard) for Sparc, with a sun Cd-rom.

But, there is a technical problem : is a Sun Cd-rom connected as a Unix
device to my Sun, can be seen from the PC emulator running in my sun
window as a standard PC cd-rom device (i.e. a scsi device) ? Does that
scheme can be extended through a network of suns: a Cd-Rom connected to
some sun on the network seen as a standard PC cd-rom by the PC-emulator
running on a another sun ?

(note that before posting this news, i phoned to Sun belgium - BIM -
which, of course, never thought about that and could not give any
answer...) 

If that can be done (i.e. Unix scsi device seen as Pc scsi device by the
PC emulator), then we could have one or more cd-roms connected to some
suns, mounted on other networked sun's on which PC-emulator would, in
separate window, run the pc executable which provides the interface to
access the information on the cd disks.

Yves Bernard
Philips Research Lab, Belgium

X-Subject: CD-ROM for Suns/Unix workstations

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