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From: time@tbomb.ice.com (Tim Endres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: 4th Dimension & Networking over the phone
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Date: 10 Dec 90 10:49:38 GMT
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In article <10559@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>, bmartin@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Brian Martin) writes:
> 4D downloads all 70,000 records (about 7,000,000 bytes) from the
> fileserver to your machine, and does the entire search on your
> machine.  Guess how long it takes to download 7MB, even at 38,000 baud?
> 

I know this sounds stupid... But...
Really?!?!

That sounds like the dumbest design I have ever heard of. What the
hell good is a server that does compute?

tim.

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