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In article <1992Dec14.014433.3317@iti.gov.sg> siushian@iti.gov.sg (Ling Siu Shian (SE)) writes:
>Your opinions will be appreciated
>
>Hi, netter,
>My company is considering a MS Windows application that uses DEC's PathWork as
>the network.  What we want to know is the following :
>  How good is DEC net (that is PathWork), is it responsive enough to be used as
>    a multi-user shared file/directory network ?
>  How good is it in comparison to other network, say Novell network that runs 
>    with MS windows 3.1 ?

Well, this is a tough one to answer.

The largest net I have is a 60 PC node net, connected to a VAX 4000/60, with
the PCSA stuff on a 5 disk stripe set.  Performance to and from the flie server
is pretty good, and the "seemingly" better connectivity to all our other
gizmos makes it a good deal.  It's pretty easy to set up and run.

I understand that DEC is putting a bunch of Novell hooks in the next release
of pathworks, but don't quote me.

Most software works just fine, windows seems OK, can't think of any that
don't work.  Most of the time you can get away with telling it that it's
a LanMan network, if software doesn't have specific Pathworks configs.
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