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From: cheshire@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Stuart David Cheshire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: One HD, two Macs
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.192342.5979@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 9 Jan 91 19:23:42 GMT
References: <16073@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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In article <16073@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
>I have two Macintoshes and one 80MB hard drive.  I'd like to access
>the HD from either Mac.  I understand I can put the HD on an Apple
>network if I make one of the Macs a dedicated server.  Um, kinda
>misses the point, I think.

Use SingleShare, it's just like Appleshare, except non-dedicated. It will slow
down the Mac with the hard disk, take up memory, and you'd better be careful
not to run too many flakey INITs because if you crash the machine you screw up
the other person's work too. Also, sharing a HD across LocalTalk is painfully
slow. Ethernet helps, but from what I've heard, it doesn't help as much as it
should -- it's still a lot slower than having your own hard disk.

Stuart Cheshire (cheshire@cs.stanford.edu)