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From: simon@alberta.uucp (Simon Tortike)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: how fast is Mac over ethernet?
Message-ID: <1990Apr12.153250.17651@cs.UAlberta.CA>
Date: 12 Apr 90 15:32:50 GMT
References: <1923@esquire.UUCP> <1990Apr11.171551.12904@intercon.com> <851@cica.cica.indiana.edu>
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In article <851@cica.cica.indiana.edu> tsui@cica.indiana.edu (Yufeng Tsui) writes:
>In article <1990Apr11.171551.12904@intercon.com> amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
>>In article <1923@esquire.UUCP>, yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost) writes:
>>> How long does it take to send 10Mbytes
> stuff deleted...
>>
>>Hardware: Macintosh II, 5MB memory, 256K RAM Cache, Peripheral Land 140MB
>>	  hard disk, Asante NuBus Ethernet Card, talking to Data General
>>	  AViiON 300 UNIX workstation
>>
>>Memory->Memory (RAMdisk -> /dev/null):		136.9 seconds	(74.8 KB/s)
>>Disk->Disk					173.2 seconds	(59.1 KB/s)
>I tried on my machine, MacIIx, 4 Meg RAM. 187k/second. disk to disk
>MacIIx --> NeXT, MacTCP.  The two machines are on the same ether cable about
>40 feet away from each other.
>
It would also be interesting to note the comparative performance under
(uni)Finder and MultiFinder.

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