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From: rnf@shumv1.uucp (Rick Fincher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple Networks
Message-ID: <1989Dec8.015115.24582@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 8 Dec 89 01:51:15 GMT
References: <4114@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher)
Organization: NCSU Computing Center
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In article <4114@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> ciotti@orville.nas.nasa.gov (Robert B. Ciotti) writes:
>
>I'm still smoking from putting this in comp.sys.apple... but
>

Since the Apple IIe and IIgs can network now, I think this is appropriate for
this newsgroup.  You don't want to do like I did and spend $300 on PSN only to
find that the IIgs and IIe can't use it because it is AFP 1.1 NOT 2.0 (after
being assured by someone at the company that it was 2.0).

> Some problems I have heard about each. 
>  PSN basically requires you to have a dedicated machine for the server
>      to insure prompt access to files. Also, if you want to add more
>      clients, you have to pay more $ for each machine (no site licence 
>      for PSN client software). 
>

PSN has no client software.  Its client software is the plain old
AppleShare workstation software packed with every Mac (since System 6.0
I think).  PSN does limit the number of users who can log onto a server
so you do have to pay about $150 per user to get extra log ins.

Since PSN allows you to run programs in the foreground while it runs in
the background, speed degradation will occur particularly if you run heavy
duty or disk intensive stuff in the foreground.  However PSN's biggest 
advantage is that you don't have to dedicate the machine.  Get AppleShare for
that, otherwise run it on the fastest thing you've got.
 

Rick Fincher
rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu