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From: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
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Subject: Re: PC-NFS over SLIP line
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Date: 25 Sep 90 19:37:02 GMT
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Quoth jbvb@ftp.com (in <9009222311.AA21050@ftp.com>):
#If my experience is any guide, the PC will be simple to configure, and
#everything will work fine [...]

Fine, but s-l-o-w-l-y. RPC tends to be a relative poor match for
low speed networks. I remember an incident during the early in-house
SQA of PC-NFS SLIP, over a 9600 baud link. A neophyte SQA person
complained that it was taking an inordinate length of time to
run a particular test - loading WordPerfect from the net. I pointed out
that 9600 baud is three orders of magnitude slower than the Ethernet
he was used to, and that people don't often encounter 1000:1 ratios
in everyday life. [Imagine walking 1000 times faster than usual, or
typing 1000 times slower!] We redesigned the tests! (Mind you,
Word Perfect did indeed load - eventually.......)

Geoff

-- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM)   --
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