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From: rhone@newsserver.sfu.ca (Brock Rhone)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.novell
Subject: Windows on diskless workstations
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.223145.21978@newsserver.sfu.ca>
Date: 13 Apr 91 22:31:45 GMT
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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Does anyone out there have experience with Windows 3.0 on 
diskless workstations?

We will be installing a small ARCnet LAN:  5 workstations and a 
dedicated server running Novell ELS II.  Three of the workstations
would be diskless 25MHz 386DXs with 4MB RAM.

I have heard that Windows' performance on a diskless station is 
seriously degraded.  How serious would the performance hit be on 
a small (and fairly lightly loaded) network like this?

The alternative to the diskless stations is to buy 20MHz 386SXs
with 40MB drives -- a slower processor but a local hard disk 
included for roughly the same price.

Is this the better option?

Thanks for any help.

Brock
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Brock Rhone
SF Univentures Corp.
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C.  CANADA