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From: fiatlux@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (David Vangerov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What's the best NETWORK?
Message-ID: <3250@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 11 May 88 05:03:51 GMT
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In article <8805041543.AA16557@ssyx.ucsc.edu> avalon%ssyx.UCSC.EDU@ucscc.UCSC.EDU writes:
>+-In article <1815@uhccux.UUCP>, garvin@uhccux.UUCP (Jay Garvin) wrote:-
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>  I work in a Mac Lab here at UCSC, and we are running Farallon Phone Net on
>a mere 8 macintoshes and 1 LW and 1 IWII.  So far, the biggest problem we
>have come into is the file server (tops I think) is connected to a Sun in
>the basement of our building, and it tends to slow down after a while.

The last time I looked, the Sun was running the AppleShare system
for Unix from Columbia. Part of the reason that it gets real slow
at times is because the network link between the lab and the Sun
is rather slow (AppleTalk), also it's running off of the Sun,
which is doing a million other things (like letting you read news
off of ssyx :-).

As far as I know, I don't think they have released TOPS for Unix
based computers, though considering that TOPS is owned by Sun,
I'm sure it'll be along real soon now...



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