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Re: Increasing RAM on AppleShare Server

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From: Scott Truesdell
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1989 21:39
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xdaa374@ut-emx.UUCP (William T. Douglass) writes:


>I don't quite know how a Plus was hooked up to Ethernet, but the SCSI-based
>connections reportedly suffer from very poor performance.  That could account
>for the minor speed improvements being touted.

There ya go!

>Again, Mac II level & up workstations doing work w/ high net traffic will
>show dramatic improvements switching from LocalTalk to Ethernet.

Just as I thought, especially the "high net traffic". Even if the 
hardware is slowing one down, just being able to cram more stuff down
the wire is worthwhile in a heavily used network.

  --scott

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Scott Truesdell
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