Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!bsiao!uh From: uh@bsiao.UUCP (Uul Haanstra) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Appleshare and Startup Volumes Message-ID: <510@bsiao.UUCP> Date: 2 Jan 89 09:29:28 GMT References: Organization: Postbank N.V., Amsterdam Lines: 22 in article , joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) says: > > The bandwith of LocalTalk is low enough that not booting from the > network was a concious decision by Apple. LocalTalk is a data > sharing netword intended for the exchange of FILES, it is not intended > to provide sufficient speed for launching applications (though many > people use it this way) nor for launching the OS. If you ran your > system off of a remote server for a while you would probably switch > back to having it local... Correct. Therefore I have set up a 1Mb RAM disk that reads the system from the 3COM server I connect to. Giving all users a few Mb extra is cheaper than a hard disk. And it eliminates a lot of problems with backups (done automatically on the 3COM) and software distribution (only one version of each generally accessible program, such as Word and Excel). With 4 Mb I can have the RAM disk, Word and Excel open all day, and still have room for another program I might need. -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Uul Haanstra, Postbank N.V. Amsterdam ...!mcvax!bsiao!uh Pb 21009 1000 EX AMSTERDAM +31-20 584 3312