Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!paul
From: paul@actrix.co.nz (Paul Gillingwater)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Novell Portable Netware on RISC Platforms?
Message-ID: <1990Oct28.001353.12232@actrix.co.nz>
Date: 28 Oct 90 00:13:53 GMT
References: <134@frcs.UUCP>
Organization: Actrix Public Access UNIX, Wellington, New Zealand
Lines: 27

In article <134@frcs.UUCP> paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash) writes:
> 
> We would like to know what RISC-based Unix platforms have Netware available
> (now or early 1991), and what their performance is like.  The easiest way

Right now, Portable Netware is available on the Hewlett-Packard
HP9000 series 800 range of RISC (HP-Precision Architecture)
computers.  Performance depends on which box you use -- they range
from 6 users boxes (815) right through to several hundred user boxes
(series 870) and soon will have multi-processor RISC with the
870/200.  Here in Wellington, the local hospitals use an HP9000/855
with over 300 users.  They're not using Portable Netware yet though.

> We would like to know
> whether a medium-sized Unix box (say a MIPS 3000 or 6000) could do useful
> work _and_ be a Novell server with reasonable performance for LAN clients.

Yes, if you want to pay for it.  HP boxes are not cheap.
>
> We have considered PC-NFS, but for a large installation it gets quite 
> expensive.  Quite a few big sites already have a fair amount of Novell
> expertise already.

HP also support PC-NFS, but their primary solution for MS-DOS and
OS/2 heterogenous networking is HP LAN Manager.
-- 
Paul Gillingwater, paul@actrix.co.nz