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From: djl@mips.COM (Dan Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Novell Portable Netware on RISC Platforms?
Summary: MIPS Will have Netware
Message-ID: <42478@mips.mips.COM>
Date: 29 Oct 90 18:49:51 GMT
References: <134@frcs.UUCP>
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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.

MIPS has announced Netware available on our entire range of systems at
the end of 1990.  The product is currently in Beta Test.  We are not
publishing specific performance numbers, but expect that our implementation
will be roughly comparable to the aformentioned 386 PC for a single
network.  For multiple networks, one might expect a MIPS implementation
to scale better than a PC.

You hit the nail on the head with you comment "and can do something else
useful at the same time."  We expect to sell Netware on machines that
also run a dbms, or a stats package, or some other cycle consuming
application.
-- 
			***dan

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