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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Path: sparky!uunet!sci34hub!gary
- From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Subject: Re: 66MHz and 50MHz servers
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.211902.28521@sci34hub.sci.com>
- Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
- References: <1992Aug28.115001.3508@wvnvms.wvnet.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:19:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.115001.3508@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> lmk@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:
- >Does anyone know whether the new 66MHz or even the 50MHz Intel based PC's are
- >suitable as Novell 3.0 servers.
-
- Well, they're probably usable, but considering that the primary purpose
- of the server is to act like a disc drive extention, the bottleneck will
- still be the bus. The faster boxes would be *great* for graphics or
- analysis workstations, but in a server application it would seem to
- waste most of the capacity. Sort of like putting a Ferrari V12 into
- a Volkswagen Bug....
-
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