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From: davecb@yunexus.YorkU.CA (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: IBM's FAL and poor performance
Message-ID: <14345@yunexus.YorkU.CA>
Date: 27 Aug 90 00:53:51 GMT
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  More light, less heat, people!

  This was a criticism of observed performance: it should have carried a
disclaimer that that is exactly what it was.  Speculation about the hardware
configuration, the disk layout or the particular software product is
inadvisable.  
  Lets stick to facts: machine a is amazingly slow and doesn't do X.
machine b on the same net isn't...


--dave (if you haven't noticed I just attacked both sides, 
	you're not paying attention (:-)) c-b
ps: Criticism, even indirect, of any vendor is liable to cause
    unkindnesses in return mail.  Criticism of at least two will
    and do cause unkindnesses to your president. Facts are necessary,
    if insufficent, in such cases.]
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