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- From: greg@iphasew.com (Greg Bulman)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
- Subject: disk/file servers vs. number crunchers
- Message-ID: <6776@mondo.iphasew.com>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 22:51:00 GMT
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Interphase (West) Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
- Lines: 31
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- Sorry for any duplicataion but I posted this to comp.dcom.servers but it
- met with no responses at all. In fact that whole newsgroup hardly sees
- any traffic at all but that group seemed more appropriate ... at the time.
-
- I've got a question reqarding a "flat" DOS network. For simplistic needs
- and cost benefits I'm selecting Lantastic networking software. My real
- question regards what DOS systems to use as disk servers and which DOS
- systems to use as computational workhorses.
-
- I'll have (2) DOS 80386-33Mz machines and (2) 80286-16Mz machines connected
- together. My first response, due to media hype, is to use the "POWER"
- machines as my disk servers, for fast data and application file access.
- After thinking about it though, I won't have more than 3 people on at a given
- time, and really, disk writes won't be unimaginably frequent. I'll be
- running accounting software (probably exclusively) so the computational
- speeds are going to be critical. So, I thought maybe I'd want the older
- machines to be disk servers and have the CPU power of the 386 machines
- available for the accounting software.
-
- For those running DOS networks and/or disk servers I request some expertise.
- (I already gotten conflicting responses from "salepeople", so thought I'd go
- into the field.) What are the advantages/disadvantages of using the 286
- for a file server and 386 for applications? What about doing the opposite?
-
- Thanks in Advance.
- -greg
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