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Article #5259Re: 4th Dimension & Networking over the phone
From: Tim Endres
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 1990 10:49
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 1990 10:49
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In article <10559@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>, bmartin@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Brian Martin) writes: > 4D downloads all 70,000 records (about 7,000,000 bytes) from the > fileserver to your machine, and does the entire search on your > machine. Guess how long it takes to download 7MB, even at 38,000 baud? > I know this sounds stupid... But... Really?!?! That sounds like the dumbest design I have ever heard of. What the hell good is a server that does compute? tim. ------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Endres | time@ice.com ICE Engineering | uupsi!ice.com!time 8840 Main Street | Whitmore Lake MI. 48189 | (313) 449 8288
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!ox.com!tbomb.ice.com!time From: time@tbomb.ice.com (Tim Endres) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: 4th Dimension & Networking over the phone Message-ID: <1CE00001.i42wj1@tbomb.ice.com> Date: 10 Dec 90 10:49:38 GMT Reply-To: time@tbomb.ice.com Organization: ICE Engineering, Inc. Lines: 19 X-Mailer: uAccess - Mac Release: 1.0.3