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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4
Message-ID: <18944@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 13 Feb 91 23:12:39 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.115100.1771@sugar.hackercorp.com> <9475@uwm.edu> <1991Feb12.210950.19547@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
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In article <1991Feb12.210950.19547@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>True, but *ethernet* won't. In fact you are lucky if you get 30% of the peak
>capacity of an ethernet before collissions kill you. Or are you planning on
>running your fileserver using telepathy?

Actually, you don't have to run your entire filesystem using telepathy.  
Instead, you can get nearly the performance just by running your
collision detection and retransmission delays via telepathy.  The
actual data can continue to travel the ethernet.

(I know you probably understood that already; its a subtle point
 that many NNTP (Network to Network Telepathic Protocols) implementers
 seem to miss in their initial release.)

		andy

>Peter da Silva.   `-_-'


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