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From: alan@cunixc.columbia.edu (Alan Crosswell)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC LAN Comparison
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Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 10:46:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 16 10:46:47 1987
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Reply-To: alan@cunixc.columbia.edu (Alan Crosswell)
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Keywords: IBM PC, Novell, hardware
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Let me throw my two cents in and also say that I found the Novell docs
to be excellent sources of technical overview information.  It is
refreshing to read something like this when the typical PC LAN vendor
doesn't even know that their hardware can be used for more than just
their software.  (A case in point, not meant to be cruel -- the
marketing person simply didn't have the appropriate technical support
behind her -- is how a year ago we had to explain to our UB rep that
you really can use their PC NIC card for other than Net/One.)

I think most of us know how to read a vendor-produced document with a
grain of salt.  Even if you never buy NetWare or any other PC LAN
implementations, you should get the reports.

One item to note is that they do have performance comparisons that are
now out of data w.r.t. IBM LAN software (and probably the others as
well) since there have been one or two new releases since the
publication date.  IBM claims to have made substantial performance
improvements in these releases.  Take that with a grain of salt too!

/a