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From: ron@Eyring.COM (Ron Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Novell Portable Netware on RISC Platforms?
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.205632.15788@Eyring.COM>
Date: 29 Oct 90 20:56:32 GMT
References: <134@frcs.UUCP>
Organization: Eyring, Inc.
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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.

>  paul@frcs.UUCP			  ...!ddsw1!proxima!frcs!paul

Portable Netware has been ported to MIPS though I don't remember if it
was a DEC or MIPS machine.  The performance was about the same as
native Netware 386 which was disappointing to hear.  I think a RISC
machine with PNW should be able to beat the pants off of Netware 386.
The main bottleneck appears to be with the AT&T STREAMS code upon which
PNW is built.

BTW, don't any Novell guys read this group?  I would be nice if they
could help inject some reality into some of these discussions...
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Ron Holt	ron@Eyring.COM  uunet!lanai!ron
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