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From: hylas@ecsvax.UUCP (Andy R. Bobyarchick)
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Subject: Re: Info requested on MacServe
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Date: Wed, 30-Apr-86 23:56:04 EDT
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We have recently installed MacServe with a network of 6 Mac+'s
and an HD20 as well as a Laserwriter. I can't answer your question
about speed quantitatively because I don't have experience with
any other such setup. One of the Macs serves as a "host" and, I
believe, print spooling is possible through the host machine only.
Any applications from the network that involve heavy I/O seem to
run slowly. 

If you set up certain MacServe volumes as read-only problems arise
when, for some reason or the other, applications need to write back
to the volume. MacDraw, for example, will not work (print) if you
open it on a shared MacServe volume. You must put the application
on a private volume or copy it to a ramdisk (or diskette) on the
network.

The only copy-protected program that I have tried to use with this
system is MS Word and it's the same old thing - you must have the
master disk for the first startup of the day. There may be software
somewhere that will install such protected programs on the hard disk
and defeat the protection but I don't think that MacServe has that
provision.

                                   Andy R. Bobyarchick
                                   Dept. of Geography and Earth Sciences
                                   UNC-Charlotte