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in article <Dec.31.17.42.54.1988.6391@elbereth.rutgers.edu>, joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) says:
 > 
 > The bandwith of LocalTalk is low enough that not booting from the
 > network was a concious decision by Apple.   LocalTalk is a data
 > sharing netword intended for the exchange of FILES, it is not intended
 > to provide sufficient speed for launching applications (though many
 > people use it this way) nor for launching the OS.   If you ran your
 > system off of a remote server for a while you would probably switch
 > back to having it local...

Correct. Therefore I have set up a 1Mb RAM disk that reads the system from 
the 3COM server I connect to. Giving all users a few Mb extra is cheaper
than a hard disk. And it eliminates a lot of problems with backups (done
automatically on the 3COM) and software distribution (only one version of 
each generally accessible program, such as Word and Excel).
With 4 Mb I can have the RAM disk, Word and Excel open all day, and still have
room for another program I might need.
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