HO> What you have to look at is the Motherboard speed all 486 computers run 
t
HO> 32 MHZ the new ones run at 40 Mhz or more, that is where you get your 
power
HO> from,  not from the CPU as there is no screen writes in the server.
HO> The server only supplys  the information code to the work station.
HO> It is not much good if you buy a 200MHZ Pentium when the mother Board 
runs 
HO> 32 MHZ, you are waisting your hard earned cash.
HO> You might as well buy a 486.
HO> Look at the Mother Board speed before you buy.
Well, yes and no.  It really depends on what your server is doing.  If you're 
only running straight stock Netware with a gig or so hard drive space and 
under 10 users, no you don't need a faster server.   However, at a customers 
place of mine, they have a custom made software that runs on a Netware 3.12 
server which uses Btrieve for data access.  Now, when there's over 10 people 
running reports that take hours and hours, believe me, you want a faster 
processor.  However, you can lower the processor speed and increase the ram 
size, Netware uses ALL available memory for caching so if ya got around 100 
megs you can just about copy a 100 meg file over to it before it even has to 
write it to the hard drive.
Anyways you probably knew all that :)
It was rather interesting, in one case, a customer had 32 gigs of hard drive 
space (mirrored) and 128 megs of ram running on an HP Netserver.  We put 256 
megs in there, and the damn thing seemed to double in speed.
Netware Rocks.
Chris
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