Re: Appletalk/GS help sought

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <2pv5uv$55e@vern.bga.com>, Khym Mahn <khym@bga.com> wrote:
>In article <2pv2ai$4a8@crcnis1.unl.edu>,
>Greg Berigan <gberigan@cse.unl.edu> wrote:
>>And if you are running a new enough version of AppleShare.  Also, this
>>makes your Mac pretty much useless for anything but serving files to the
>>GS.
>
>Not true! This Quadra 650 I'm using works great as a file server _and_
>a dumb terminal! :-) But seriously, why would AppleShare make the Mac
>pretty much useless for anything else? The file server uses about 400K
>of RAM, and I haven't noticed any performance degradation when the
>file server isn't being accessed.

Well if "new enough" means 3.0, then no sweat. But Appleshare 2.0 and earlier
run under icky system 6 which isn't as good at running multiple apps and might
bog down your machine. For the record, I run 3.0 on a Mac plus and I can boot
a IIgs from the server and access the server from other machines and cruise
around the finder on the plus at the same time. And a plus is not a speedy Mac.
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Randy Shackelford                                "That's right, keep dancing
shack@crash.cts.com                               on the minefield"
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