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:>Why don't you add a, possibly used, A500 of A1000?
:And more memory and another hard drive, and possibly second copies of a lot
:of software, to satisfy the license agreements?  No, for a 10-15% duty cycle
:(if that much) I'd much rather use one machine, multiuser.  Anyway, two users
:on a LUCAS/FRANCES Amiga ought to get better individual performance than two
:on plain Amigas.  (Assuming I do the LUCAS/FRANCES hack, which I'm strongly
:considering...)
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:Bela Lubkin     * *   filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us   CIS: 73047,1112
:     @        * *     ...ucbvax!ucscc!gorn!filbo    ^^^  REALLY slow [months]
:R Pentomino     *     Filbo @ Pyrzqxgl (408) 476-4633 & XBBS (408) 476-4945

	Now that I have NET: working w/ my parallel port network (raw
    throughput of 28KBytes/sec), having a second Amiga has suddenly become
    useful, much more useful than spending the $$ for an accelerator.

	A year or two ago I bought an A500 to complement my A1000. The
    purpose was to have a second computer to play around with networking
    and to have a second computer to debug things on.  Apart from that
    it was pretty much useless with only a floppy drive.  Monitor?  oh yah,
    I use an old 1701 monitor on it from my C64 days.

	Now here comes along NET: (Doug Walker), and just when I've gotten 
    my parallel port networking code to work!.  Doug got a taste of the
    match made in heaven after getting NET: to work with my ppn stuff,
    but he was using an Alpha version which had bugs so it died after
    a while.

	But, fortuitously, Doug posts the NET: source and I am able to get
    it up and running w/ the latest ppn code.  No bugs, diskperfa comes up
    with impressive numbers, and now the A500 has access to all my A1000
    volumes, and at a decent speed.  Not only can I do all the things I
    normally do on my A1000 on my A500, but the enviroment setups are, well,
    you can't really tell the difference between the two.  To get things 
    compiled in a hurry I can compile on both machines at once!

	The moment I get permission from Doug to post the parallel port
    NET: binaries I will do so.  (This'l probably take Doug by surprise
    as the whole business has occured only in the last 3 days!)  Note:
    cabling is not the same as was for the Alpha I sent out.

	diskperf results (NET: to my HD. Btw, I have a *slow* hd. numbers
    probably better with better hd's though the network limit is 28KBytes/sec)

	create 	    10 files/sec, delete 21 files/sec
	dir scan    18 entries/sec
	seek-read:  30 seek-reads/sec

	r/w (512)	12483 bytes/sec (rd),	9745 bytes/sec (wr)
	r/w (4096)	15887 bytes/sec (rd),  15065 bytes/sec (wr)
	r/w (8192)	16384 bytes/sec (rd),  15511 bytes/sec (wr)

	diskperf NET: to my A1000's RAM: drive yields 25 KBytes/sec
	(4096 byte buffers).  Raw network throughput is 28 KBytes/sec.

					-Matt