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From: halff@nprdc.arpa (Henry Halff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac-Pc Networking
Summary: TOPS Client-only mode uses 100K
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Date: 31 Mar 89 22:32:18 GMT
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In article <102.243363F9@bmug.FIDONET.ORG> Bernard.Aboba@f444.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Bernard Aboba) writes:
>I'm looking for a network that runs on both the Mac and PC, and that will leave enough memory on a PC based node to all me to run PC Illustrator or PC PageMaker, and to be able to print to a networked LaserWriter.  
>I've already tried TOPS, and by the time everything was loaded in, there was only 256K of RAM left on the PC!!

The newest version of TOPS (2.1) lets you operate the PC as a client
only for about 100K overhead.  On my machine that leaves about 440K
free on top of DOS.  Your figure may be different depending on what
you have in the way of drivers, TSRs, etc.

hh