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echo: novell
to: FRANK RAMSEY
from: DAVID ROPER
date: 1996-12-23 19:58:00
subject: REALWORLD ACCOUNTING

 DR>    What if "Real World accounting" uses the hex300 or hex270 ports for
 DR>    storing small chunks of data?  Some programmers love to find those
 DR>    little places thinking no one else knows about them and
 DR>    ...voila!... You have a conflict from an errant pointer or
 DR>    something.  Just guessing.  I had an ALPHA FOUR database system that
 DR>    would not run on ARCNET because of that conflict.  Peace.
FR>>Guess I fail to see how storing anything in a workstation port would 
cause the
  >>server problems?  I'm sure you're not going to get direct IO to the 
erver
  >>hardware from the workstation.
   You're right. ;-(  I guess my mental RAM was OTL that day. ;-)
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