Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ll-xn!husc6!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu!elwell From: elwell@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu (Clayton Elwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: What's the best NETWORK? Message-ID: <14464@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 27 May 88 16:35:14 GMT References: <193@hodge.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer and Information Science Lines: 33 adail@pnet06.cts.com (Alan Dail) writes: ..., even ethernet is going to be much slower than using a built in hard disk. I would not use appleshare as a system disk even if it were on ethernet and would let me because having slow disk access destroys the advantages of having a fast computer. alan dail UUCP: {crash uunet}!pnet06!adail ARPA: crash!pnet06!adail@nosc.mil INET: adail@pnet06.cts.com Well, I've run AppleShare between two Mac IIs connected directly by Ethernet, and after doing a series of timings, I found that the difference in speed between AppleShare+EtherTalk and a local SCSI hard disk is negligible. I'd be happy to run a Mac diskless over Ethernet, just as I'm happy to run my Sun 3/50 over Ethernet (and it swaps as well as doing file access)... Another thing to remember is that boot disks do not last forever. As a rough guess, we have to replace about 10% of our boot disks every quarter (i.e. about 30 out of about 300). Sometimes they just wear out. Sometimes they get dropped & stepped on. Sometimes people forget and take them home, or drop them behind tables, or whatever. It's hard to lose a network, and they don't wear out so fast... -=- Clayton M. Elwell -=- "Gee, the Captain's vanished utterly so we'd better beam down the second-in- command to exactly the same coordinates to see what happened to him!"