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From: mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Do you want to transfer files over AppleTalk?
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Date: 30 Sep 89 17:54:00 GMT
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In article <10588@claris.com> peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce) writes:
>In article <45eb3ff4.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> mystone@sol.engin.umich.edu writes:
>>
>>  Does it use ADSP or ATP for transferring files?  Unless is uses ADSP, I'm
>>not impressed.  OK, ok, maybe I'll be impressed a little bit, but I wouldn't be impressed as much as I would be if it uses ADSP.
>>
>
>Why in the world would people care if it uses ATP or ADSP???  Public Folder
>does the job and it does it with decient performance.  Typical tranfer rates
>are 15K bytes per seconds using LocalTalk to LocalTalk and maybe 55K bytes
>per second EtherTalk to EtherTalk.  These transfer rates include all the
>overhead: open remote file, read remote file, close remote file, create local
>file, open, write, close, flushVol, as well as transfer over the network.
>Your milage WILL vary based on network traffic, how many bridges you have
>to go through, speed of the two Macs and their disks, and phase of the 
>moon (always the most important variable!).
>
  Excuse me.  I meant AFP. (In both posts.)  ADSP is a faster protocol than AFP.
>
>For the record, I did used ATP, rather then ADSP.  With ATP I didn't need to
>allocate too much buffering.  This allows Public Folder's server resident
>code and data buffers to take up less than 10K.  This compares well with
>the alternatives (TOPS is a memory pig IMHO).
>
>Anyways, I hope people find Public Folder useful even though it uses the
>dreaded ATP ;-)  
>
>

  I meant no negative criticism to you, Mike.  I was wondering about the
throughput of Public Folder.  If it's as fast as you say, I'm not going to
complain.
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