Hey, have you guys seen SharePoints? Wonderful shareware. Breaks you
out of the restrictive filesharing scheme that Apple went for in OSX,
which we old pre-X Macies found constrictive and claustrophobic.
Instead of just a special folder in your home directory, SharePoints
lets you share any folder on your hard drives, with full access
controls.
I tried it on two G4 AGPs (350 and 400 MHz), and compared to what I've
been used to from an OS9 server, it worked very fast - about 10
Megabyte per second.
So, on our deficit budget I hope that even a decent G3 something with
nothing more that Panther and SharePoints would make a good server for
home/small business, with simple and cheap 100 MB ethernet connections.
Then it wouldnt matter that G3 video cards are slow for todays
standard, and there isnt that much the processor would have to do
either, controlling dataflow to and from the HD and network.
Or what do you think?
Probably would make sense to add a faster HD and a PCI-controller...?
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