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- From: BOBMAH@PSC.PLYMOUTH.EDU (Bob Mahoney)
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- Subject: Help with a choice of machines!
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- Date: 6 Nov 92 18:32:45 GMT
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- Hello, learned ones!
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- We are currently happy VMS/Multinet/PMDF users. I am working on the final
- stages of a networking proposal, and am specifying a "Network Operations"
- machine, to handle DNS, mailing lists, and other global networking tasks.
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- The problem is this: we want to use this machine to be a WAIS/Gopher server, to
- provide all sorts of neat services for our users. I have been warned by a more
- WAIS-wise person than myself that the VMS/Multinet versions of WAIS/Gopher-type
- utilities are not as advanced as their UNIX counterparts, not fully
- implemented, etc.
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- The question is: I'd like to buy an Alpha workstation to do the job. VMS will
- be ready, I am told, long before OSF. I really could buy just about anything
- to do this job, although I really like Multinet and PMDF. What sort of
- disappointments will I be likely to face in terms of WAIS and other network
- services? Is the public-domain availability of neat new toys going to always
- be a disappointment if I go with a Alpha/VMS box?
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- Any relevant advice or comments would be helpful!
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- Thank'ee! -Bob
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