on 5/7/02 11:46 PM, Chris Ruprecht at chrup_at_earthlink.net wrote:
> Every time, I hear 'server', I shudder. Although MacOS X is UNIX based
> and should do well as a server OS, Apple has botched that up missing
> documentation - lots of it ;-). I'm doing database development for a
> living and have installed PostgreSQL on a number of different machines -
> including my MacOS X boxes. On all machines except the Macs, I can set
> shared memory to what ever I feel like, which is important for
> performance and client/server communications. Under MacOS X, I can't get
> more than 4 MB which makes running any serious stuff impossible.
> Sorry to say, but a rack mounted box doesn't make it a server, I can
> also mount my old Z80 in a rack - oh hang on - I did that already, back
> in 1982, but that still doesn't make it anything else but a 4 Mhz Z80
> single user machine. A 1 Ghz G4 is still just that, no matter where it's
> mounted - and the OS is still the same, so, why should I get excited?
> Now a new Newton on the other hand - but I don't get my hopes up here.
Did you get the same result when using MacOS X Server, as contrasted with
ordinary MacOS X??
- Eric.
--Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
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