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Article #27803Re: What's the best NETWORK?
From: Rick Holzgrafe
Date: Thu, 05 May 1988 17:22
Date: Thu, 05 May 1988 17:22
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In article <2229@polyslo.UUCP> dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke) writes:
>In article <1815@uhccux.UUCP> garvin@uhccux.UUCP (Jay Garvin) writes:
>>We are thinking of moving to AppleShare. [...]
>
>>How about some others, like TOPS?
>
> TOPS is excellent is some situation. Those situation are when you have
>more than one type of computer on the network, Macs ---> MS-Dos --> Sun
>workstations. And TOPS is cheaper if you have fewer than 10 workstations
>on the network.
> But if you have more than 10 workstotions, and they are all Mac's, then
>I'd recommend Appleshare. [...]
>
>David M. O'Rourke
I hope no-one minds a partisan pointing out that current versions of
AppleShare do support MS-DOS and Pro-DOS (Apple II) workstations as
well as Macs.
I don't work on AppleShare, so please don't send questions to me...
you'll find me to be pretty ignorant about the details. :-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!amdahl!nsc!voder!apple!rmh From: rmh@Apple.COM (Rick Holzgrafe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: What's the best NETWORK? Message-ID: <9329@apple.Apple.Com> Date: 5 May 88 17:22:45 GMT References: <1814@uhccux.UUCP> <1815@uhccux.UUCP> <2229@polyslo.UUCP> Reply-To: rmh@apple.UUCP (Rick Holzgrafe) Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 27