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- From: Matt Ackeret <unknown@apple.com>
- Subject: Re: system 7 mac as a gs file server
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.211844.3440@gallant.apple.com>
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:18:44 GMT
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- In article <Bx95ME.F59@hfglobe.intel.com> George Rachor,
- george@hfglobe.intel.com writes:
- >were going to put a larger drive in the mac. Before we really consider
- >buying a drive for the gs I was wondering if the mac could be used to
- act as
- >a file server for the gs.
-
- Well, yeah, you can use Personal Filesharing in System 7 on the Mac to
- share
- volumes/folders with your GS, but it would be very advantageous to ALSO
- have
- a hard drive on your GS. Booting the system is just soooo much faster
- on a hard drive (esp w/RamFAST card) than off of floppies.
-
- So yes, filesharing is a very handy way to use part of a Mac's drive for
- storage, but
- it definitely is slow doing stuff over the network, and having a hard
- drive
- locally is better.
-
- My views, not Apple's.
-