Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!watdcsu!psych
From: psych@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Tops and DaynaTalk
Message-ID: <5944@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 26 May 89 21:02:32 GMT
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Reply-To: psych@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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I would like to disagree that there is no speed up on a MacPlus with
the Flashbox or DaynaTalk installed. When I ran our network with only
two machines connected using the Flashbox, I ran through a bunch of
things that a normal user might do. It took about half as long to do
them compared to the same set up without Flashboxes. With the network
completely up I don't expect quite as dramatic an increase in speed but
I am open to surprises and expect to get a noticeable increase.

The two machines were the server and a station both of which are pluses.
What I did was logon, access a system volume on the server, switch to that
volume, access the applications volume, load Word 3.0, and open a document.
The rest of the network was turned on but not active. I then disconnected
the Flashboxes and did the same thing. This took almost twice as long 
(27 secs as  opposed to 15 secs).


Richard Crispin
Dept. of Psychology             Bitnet: psych@watdcs 
University of Waterloo          Unix  : psych@watdcsu.UWaterloo.ca 
Waterloo, Ont.   Canada   N2L 3G1
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