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From: phil@mit-amt (Phil Sohn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Question about running multiple Mac's off 1 Mac 'server' using TOPS
Summary: Lots of bad news
Keywords: TOPS Mac
Message-ID: <2960@mit-amt>
Date: 24 Aug 88 13:18:26 GMT
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Reply-To: phil@ems.media.mit.edu (Phil Sohn)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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	The answer to all your questions is no, I'm afraid.

	No, you can not have different people running the same system
and finder.  You would have to have a seperate folder for each. 
(i.e. for five users you would need five system folders on the "server."
You would also have to have five copies of most programs as very few
are multi-launch.

	No,{you can not get by easily with only bying three disks.  The
only way I can think of would be to try booting from different floppies.
There maybe a way around this thought.  I think the serial number is in
an INIT and perhaps you could have multiple copies of the init in the
system folder.  (I am not sure of this.  I am also not sure what would
happen if you had three copies in you system folder and no one else was
using the system.  Perhaps all three copies would become busy?)

	Another problem would be that that one person how has a 
"non-dedicated server" would have serious performance problems if
several people were using his hard disk.

	It has been almost a year since I played with Tops, so it is
possible that my info may be way out of date.  Give them a call.