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From: rmh@Apple.COM (Rick Holzgrafe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What's the best NETWORK?
Message-ID: <9329@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 5 May 88 17:22:45 GMT
References: <1814@uhccux.UUCP> <1815@uhccux.UUCP> <2229@polyslo.UUCP>
Reply-To: rmh@apple.UUCP (Rick Holzgrafe)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <2229@polyslo.UUCP> dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke) writes:
>In article <1815@uhccux.UUCP> garvin@uhccux.UUCP (Jay Garvin) writes:
>>We are thinking of moving to AppleShare.  [...]
>
>>How about some others, like TOPS?  
>
>  TOPS is excellent is some situation.  Those situation are when you have
>more than one type of computer on the network, Macs ---> MS-Dos --> Sun 
>workstations.  And TOPS is cheaper if you have fewer than 10 workstations
>on the network.
>  But if you have more than 10 workstotions, and they are all Mac's, then
>I'd recommend Appleshare.  [...]
>
>David M. O'Rourke

I hope no-one minds a partisan pointing out that current versions of
AppleShare do support MS-DOS and Pro-DOS (Apple II) workstations as
well as Macs.

I don't work on AppleShare, so please don't send questions to me...
you'll find me to be pretty ignorant about the details. :-)

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