Re: Windows NT or Novell 4.x?

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From: imt... Ian M. Turek
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 00:00

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dav...@smms.com (David Chamberlain) wrote:

>In article <4d116u$p...@news.onramp.net>, we...@onramp.net says...
>>
>>I am currently running 100 user 3.12 LAN with heavy DataBase use. I have been 
>confronted
>>by the Director of IS about going to NT. Any thoughts?

>I would ask your IS Director what he expects to get from going to NT.  We 
>recently made the switch.  Before we switched I was given all of these 
>wonderful reasons.  Here are some results.

>Reason:
>  It will perform better.

>Result:
>  We went from a 66 Mhz 486-DX2 with 64MB of RAM on an EISA buss, a Mylex EISA 
>DAC960 disk array controller and a 3Com EISA FDDI nic; all running NetWare.

Are you using any client/server based applications?  I believe that
with such apps it might be worth considering NT because of its SMP
capabilities.

>  We went to a 133 Mhz Pentium, also with 64 MB of RAM on a PCI buss, a Mylex 
>PCI DAC960P disk array controller and a Network Peripherals PCI FDDI nic, 
>running Windows NT.  It got visibly slower.




I am nopt responsible for: spellunk, grammer, and punctuazion

Ian M. Turek
imt...@compumedia.com

Network Administrator and Tech. Support Specialist
Pacific Northwest Bank
Seattle, WA
pn...@wolfenet.com

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Subject: Re: Windows NT or Novell 4.x?
Date: 1996/01/12
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