From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!mitccc!rpk Newsgroups: net.micro,net.unix-wizards,net.works Title: Re: shared file-server == time-sharing again Article-I.D.: mitccc.431 Posted: Mon Mar 7 17:28:06 1983 Received: Thu Mar 10 01:07:42 1983 References: utzoo.2837 It is very true that having a local paging disk helps out a lot. Here at MIT, the experience with Lisp Machines has been that file access over the CHAOSNet (roughly like a 4MHz Ethernet) is actually just as fast, or even faster, than access to local files (even when the file server itself is a timesharing system). Most of the advantages of having paging segments shared on a remote computer can be simulated with the appropiate net protocols. ``Bob'' UUCP: ...decvax!genradbo!mitccc!rpk ARPA: RpK @ MC