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adail@pnet06.cts.com (Alan Dail) writes:
    ..., even ethernet is going to be much slower than using a built
    in hard disk.  I would not use appleshare as a system disk even if
    it were on ethernet and would let me because having slow disk access
    destroys the advantages of having a fast computer.  
    
    alan dail
    
    UUCP: {crash uunet}!pnet06!adail
    ARPA: crash!pnet06!adail@nosc.mil
    INET: adail@pnet06.cts.com

Well, I've run AppleShare between two Mac IIs connected directly by
Ethernet, and after doing a series of timings, I found that the
difference in speed between AppleShare+EtherTalk and a local SCSI hard
disk is negligible.

I'd be happy to run a Mac diskless over Ethernet, just as I'm happy to
run my Sun 3/50 over Ethernet (and it swaps as well as doing file
access)...

Another thing to remember is that boot disks do not last forever.  As
a rough guess, we have to replace about 10% of our boot disks every
quarter (i.e. about 30 out of about 300).  Sometimes they just wear
out.  Sometimes they get dropped & stepped on.  Sometimes people
forget and take them home, or drop them behind tables, or whatever.

It's hard to lose a network, and they don't wear out so fast...

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Clayton M. Elwell <elwell@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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