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From: hda... Lennart Regebro
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 15:36

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In article <D4029...@dsbc.icl.co.uk>, m...@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Matthew Roderick) writes:
>>Win95 could be a file server, can send and receive mail, is a
>>peer-to-peer networking OS, just like winnt.
> 
> Well you could say that about Windows for Workgroups, but no many
> people use it as such. Maybe IF Win95 was pre-emptive multitasking this
> would be workable.  (ie all the beta's on Win95 I've seen you can't have a
> 'dir /s' scrolling in a dos box while doing something else)

It would be workable but not very good. All Peer-to-peer systems have one big
problem. There are users on the servers. This automatically means trouble since a user might reboot the PC while you are using his hard disk.

Peer-to-peer is really meant to be used for the occassional file transfer or the occasional printer sharing. Unfortunately, the peer-to-peer nets I have seen doesn't use them like that, and therefore has _lots_ of trouble.

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