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From: jagrogan@vax1.tcd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Network workstations
Message-ID: <6716.26c1bd60@vax1.tcd.ie>
Date: 9 Aug 90 19:45:36 GMT
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Organization: Computer Laboratory, Trinity College Dublin
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It is certainly worth taking a look at Novell. You can set up a machine as a server,
and connect all the wrkstations to it. You would ideally need a large fast hard
disk on the server. The workstations then need only have a floppy drive so as to
boot them up. There is no need to have hard disks on the workstations. With this
configuartion you could have for example 4 XT workstations and a 286 server with say,
a hard disk with access time of 20mS. You would find this more than adequate.
A good database to use in a network environment is Borland's Paradox 3.0.

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