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- Subject: Re: Can Novell support 75+ workstations?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.104442.262@indyvax.iupui.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:44:42 -0500
- References: <9301212346.AA06174@public.btr.com.BTR.COM>
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- In article <9301212346.AA06174@public.btr.com.BTR.COM>, a9@public.btr.com (Ashar Nisar) writes:
- >
- >
- > Question: What is the MAXIMUM number of workstations that a 486 MSDOS server
- > can handle and still give reasonable performance with Novell network?
- >
- > We want to setup a lab with 486 50Mhz (or better) file servers and
- > 286 DOS workstations for students doing (mostly) editing and compiling.
- > The number of workstations will be anywhere from 75 - 100.
-
- Gad, you should be able to run 200+ modest workstations from one of those
- servers, if your NICs can handle the traffic. We run nearly 100 workstations
- (PS/2-30 286s, some diskless) off a single PS/2-80, a 386DX system of
- unremarkable speed. (I.e. I don't know the clock rate, but it isn't the
- highest available.)
-
- We're looking at doing a much more aggressive installation (75-100 486
- workstations mostly running MS Windows 3.1, 25-30 Macs, one hefty 486 server),
- so if you know something about this realm that I don't (as is likely), please
- tell me so.
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