etstbos@dutrun.UUCP (Erik-Jan Bos) (09/05/88)
In article <576@laura.UUCP> edelhoff@exunido.UUCP (Volker Edelhoff) writes: >Currently I'm using a 3COM PC-Network with 3COM Software and 3COM >Hardware and it performs quite miserably. Even optimizing the >(much too many) parameters of the 3COM Operating system does not >result in any performance gain. ... >Now I would like to know whether the other major Operating Systems >for PC-Network will perform better than 3COM! That's a nice question! Performance in fact is not an absolute entity. The performance of a system is always compared to the performance of some other system. We should define a sort of simple, for everybody to use, benchmark for testing the performance of our systems. >What are Your experiences with PC Network Operating Systems? We have a Waterloo PORT LAN installed, using ARCnet hardware. We used an Olivetti M24 (XT compatible) as fileserver and the performance wasn't that good! But now we upgraded the fileserver to an AT, with 4 Mbyte of memory. We now think performance is very satisfying, but we did not compare this to other systems. But I repeat, performance figures should be compared to another. >What do You think about BANYAN and it's VINES - it seems to bee >unlimited in its facilities, but what about PERFORMANCE? I like to hear that too! Maybe unlimited :-) ? Conclusion: Maybe we can come down to some very simple tests and we can compare some Network Operating Systems. I await your comments... -- Erik-Jan Bos EARN/BITNET : ERIKJAN at HDETUD53 Delft University of Technology EUnet/USENET : etstbos@dutrun Faculty of Electrical Engineering DECnet : TUDEDV::ERIKJAN Delft, The Netherlands VOICE : +31 15 783502