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From: jimmy@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Jimmy Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
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Date: 16 Mar 91 09:09:10 GMT
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In article <45655@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>In article <ml5G*ez!@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>>Ethernet is overkill.  You must be joking.  Anything less is
>>unacceptable.
>You don't know what you are talking about.  I have 36-odd Macs, 1 PC, 4 
>laserprinters, and 3 networked ImageWriters on LocalTalk and I haven't seen
>the network bog down yet.  We have one file server and 2 users on a multi-user
>database.  Faster would be nice, but we don't have the $.

Try usingAldus Pagemaker 4.0 on the ntwork with only two users using 
Pagemaker.  Or try having 10 people on the network open Microsoft Word 4.0
at the same time.  Btw, these are with Mac Pluses and SEs with only 1 meg.
Talk about being sadistic...8-)...