Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.nfs:2014 comp.windows.ms:10445 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc:5209 Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.windows.ms,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!sunee!erick From: erick@sunee.waterloo.edu (Erick Engelke) Subject: Re: Sun PC-NFS deficiencies Message-ID: <1991Mar18.064809.15588@sunee.waterloo.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo References: <1991Mar13.180625.14540@amd.com> <1541@fs1.ee.ubc.ca> <1991Mar16.015158.20566@amd.com> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 06:48:09 GMT Lines: 17 someone wrote: >|On the other hand, what we do get would be ridiculous on a PC. Things like >|Maple 5, or MAthematica. Basically anything that needs a STABLE network with >|REAL multitasking and REAL virtual memory. Sorry, but MAPLE 5 runs very well on MS-DOS computers. In fact, it ran my programs about 6 times as fast as our Microvax 2000's and of course much faster than our 11/785s. BUT, more importantly, running multiple maple sessions makes the unix box slow down linearly. Not so with networked PCs. Erick -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erick Engelke Watstar Computer Network Watstar Network Guy University of Waterloo Erick@Development.Watstar.UWaterloo.ca (519) 885-1211 Ext. 2965