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From: kenh@techbook.com (Ken Haynes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Netware with Clarkson packet driver
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.125522.4901@techbook.com>
Date: 26 Apr 91 12:55:22 GMT
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In article <41584@cup.portal.com> Jons@cup.portal.com (Jonathan S Spangler) writes:
>How much memory do you lose?
>
>ipx + net[3,4] = 60-70 Kb
>packet driver = ?
>PC-NFS = 100 Kb
>
>
>We have someone interested in running PC-NFS on top of IPX. They are running
>AutoCAD 386 and Drawbase.
>
>Is this a realistic scenario?

Use 386MAX to throw IPX and NETx into high memory. It works great and frees
tons of memory for 640 KB hungry applications.  I don't know if the packet
dirver and/or PC-NFS will like that tho'.  You might check into the DOS
workstation ODI support under 3.11 for IPX/TCP/IP support.

Ken


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