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From: donp@na.excelan.com (don provan)
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Subject: Re: Novell Portable Netware on RISC Platforms?
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Date: 6 Nov 90 23:35:19 GMT
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In article <1990Nov1.192549.11283@Eyring.COM> ron@Eyring.COM (Ron Holt) writes:
>Most of the information I have on Netware comes from the many people I
>know at Novell (I live in Provo, Utah - Novell's headquarters).  In
>particular, my comment on STREAMs comes from an informal presentation
>given by the director of the PNW group to a CS class at BYU.

One thing to keep in mind is that when someone from Novell's Provo
engineering group looks at streams, they are probably comparing it to
the standard NetWare SPX interface.  In addition, they probably
compare SPX applications running over the SPX interface, which is the
interface they were designed for, and with SPX applications running
over the streams interface, which isn't.  In general, this means they
are looking at query/reply applications, which are great for the SPX
interface and applications but not particularly flattering for streams.

>Under a production environment, sure, other processes are running.  But
>when people (including Novell) benchmark PWN, I'm sure that they don't
>have unneeded processes running at the time.

The environment has overhead for anticipated processes, whether any
other processes are running or not.  In particular, NetWare itself
will normally be a process and subject to normal process latencies.

>I know they have an Internet connection,
>maybe nobody there has access to Netnews.

Novell is a distributed company.  Some sites have netnews access.
Some sites don't know what netnews is.  I believe the Portable NetWare
group does have netnews access, as it happens, but i doubt they follow
this group very closely.

>Considering the amount of
>traffic in this group that relates to NetWare, I would think Novell
>would be interested in this group.

Actually, the amount of NetWare traffic in this group has just
recently gone up.  Previously is was mostly for hardware discussions.
To me this indicates that it's time for a specific NetWare news group.
	
						don provan
						donp@novell.com