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In article <1992Sep11.171251.15888@wilder.com> throop@wilder.com (Throop
Wilder) writes:

>For example, you have to boot the clients off a floppy and run an
>application on that floppy which listens for the broadcasts. This
>means visiting each machine

A minor correction: you only have to boot from a floppy if you want to update
the System Folder of the client machine. In the demo we saw, the Apple sales
droid updated a different folder on the client while booted from the client's
hard disk. (He didn't have the floppy to boot from.)


>Second, and this is the biggest problem
>for non-classroom use, the broadcast-based transmission method
>makes work on any Mac which is attached to the same wire as the 
>sending and receiving Macs impossible. This is because the network
>is being flooded with broadcasts. Every one of these has to be 
>serviced by _every_ Mac on the wire. I know this because I have
>tried to use a Mac on the same wire and it is simply impossible.

What he said.


David Gutierrez
drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu

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