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From: bmh@demon.siemens-rtl (Beatrice M Hwong)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Pacer vs. Alisa (A Tale of Two VAX-Mac Systems)
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Date: 14 Apr 88 12:48:35 GMT
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In article <2044@louie.udel.EDU> garrett@udel.EDU (Joel Garrett) writes:
>In article <11134@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> lui@CS.UCLA.EDU (Stephen Lui) writes:
>>We are connecting our VAXes to our Macintoshes through the very popular
>>Kinetics FastPath gateway box. I'm comparing the two popular software
>>packages made by Alisa Systems and Pacer.
>
>
>>Does anyone have any comments about either system?
>
>
>As far as overall performance is concerned, Alisa's stuff seems to be a
>little slower than Pacer's (all results aren't in, this test isn't complete)
>which might be attributed to the way they implement their system, which
>appears more flexible.
There is a comparison of AlisaTalk, PacerShare, and CommUnity in Digital
Review (February 8, 1988) on p70.  The comparisons show that the Pacer is
either equal or faster than the other two using either EtherTalk or FastPath.
A disadvantage of Alisa is that it does not maintain HFS.
Experience here has been with PacerLink which needed a couple of minor revisions before it was working as promised.  Our PacerLink ties Ultrix on a Vax8600 to
Appletalk.
Beatrice M. Hwong
Siemens RTL
105 College Rd E
Princeton, N.J. 08540
609-734-3384
bmh%demon.siemens.com@princeton.edu