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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Looking for CHEAP multitasking...
Keywords: multitasking, cheap
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Date: 21 Jun 89 15:51:35 GMT
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Have you considered having the PC run a client program which
interrogates the database on another system? You have lots of Suns and
stuff there, you could put the data on one of those and access by
PC-NFS, SLIP, or plain serial connection to a server.

Instead of running multitasking on the PC you can use it as a client to
another machine, and possibly really keep the cost down by not having a
hard disk, if this is a dedicated PC. I think the price of PC-NFS and a
hard disk are in the same range, given big educational discounts.
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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