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From: rampson@flash (Michael T. Rampson)
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Subject: Re: SNAKE CLUSTER(?)
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Date: 16 May 91 14:22:05 GMT
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> What IS the big advantage to partitions on a workstation?
> 

It is nice to have a local partition for swap, this can speed up a
workstation quite a bit
not having to rely on the network to do swapping, especially if you run
applications that
are resource hogs like VUE, softbench, etc.

"There is no dog" -- A dislexic atheist....
rampson@uswat.uswest.com