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From: jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: PC/TCP speed
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Date: 15 Nov 90 16:52:33 GMT
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    Does anyone know if PC-NFS (Sun Microsystems) runs faster than PC/TCP
    (FTP Software, Inc.)?

I assume you're interested in speed of NFS accesses.  At the moment, my
feeling is that BW-NFS is the fastest by a small margin, with PC-NFS and
Interdrive being competitive on reads and short (< 1Kb) writes, and PC-NFS
being good deal faster than Interdrive on large writes.  I don't consider
it likely that NFS (an open protocol with end-to-end data checksumming and a
general purpose machine being used as a fileserver) will ever be as fast as
the DOS-specific filesharing schemes (lightweight transports, no end-to-end
checksum, fileserver with optimized disk layout).

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