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- From: wbeebe@bilver.uucp (Bill Beebe)
- Subject: Re: IBM AS/400 is the world's slowest computer
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:57:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.195706.20977@bilver.uucp>
- References: <1992Dec26.003022.25532@bilver.uucp> <id.TX9W.FC3@ferranti.com> <1993Jan1.102554.28575@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>
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- In article <1993Jan1.102554.28575@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche) writes:
-
- >For small organizations with limited computing staff (yes,
- >even none!), a multi-user box is often the way to go.
- >Networking introduces many complications which are often
- >difficult to diagnose from off-site using anything less than
- >a megabit/second link and a voice link to have a "slave" do
- >the physical checks.
-
- Well, at this small organization of 4 engineers, I do the network support
- as well as billable hours. We started with a cheap 25MHz 386DX box running
- Netware 2.2. We keep our group work on the server, migrating our development
- work as it matures. I kept us out of trouble by simply backing up the
- server and keeping a "stock" copy of our work systems disk environment.
- When we went to Windows for Workgroups I was able to do backups of both
- the server as well as the clients via peer-to-peer. I have everything
- automated, and we use the mail and schedule modules now to let the others
- know something important when we can't do it face-to-face. Based upon
- my costs for boxes, NICs, and various pieces of software, it's a wash when
- it comes to network versus box-and-terminals. But the nicest part of our
- setup is the fact that my 33MHz 486 system is _mine_. If I have to do some
- real intense work (like major builds or 3-D simulation) then I can withoug
- hearing about it because it's impacted the rest of the group. If I want
- to install some other environment (which I do on occassion) because of
- a client's project, then I can. I have lived on WANs since 82 and LANs
- (specifically Novell) since 86. I find LAN life preferable to living
- on archaic multi-user boxes.
-
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