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From: root@taumet.UUCP (Super user)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: lan workplace, dos/xenix network, etc
Message-ID: <172@taumet.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 89 16:59:20 GMT
References: <124@wyn386.UUCP>
Reply-To: mikel@.UUCP (Michael S. Lueke)
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Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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In article <124@wyn386.UUCP> danielw@wyn386.UUCP (Daniel Wynalda) writes:
>I recently installed SCO Xenix-Net and Excelan LAN workplace software
>on two 80386 machines and I must say I like it. 
>
> [Stuff deleted]
>
>Now that I am impressed with this system, is there anyone out there who's
>tied DOS machines into this type of network and used the SCO Xenix
>machines as file servers. 
>

We have 5 DOS machines connected to a single Xenix-Net file server through
Excelan LAN workplace software.  Using the Xenix machine as a virtual disk
to run DOS programs works. However, it can be painfully slow.  For most
applications it takes too long for a file on the Xenix file server to be
copied into memory on the DOS machines.

We mostly use the Xenix file server as a common location to backup important
files on our DOS machines.  If we need to use a file on the file server we
usually copy it over to a hard disk on our DOS machines beforehand.


		    Michael S. Lueke
		    Taumetric Corp., San Diego