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RE: Compatibility issue

> Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 01:39:55 -0400
> Subject: Compatibility Issue
> From: Juan Manuel Palacios <email@hidden>
> To: <email@hidden>
>
> I'm planning on installing a server on a company I work for but still
> have a couple of queries to solve before I do so.
>
> We are a graphical design company and of course work with the regular
> Photoshop and Illustrator pack, on quite old 9xxx and first G3 generation
> PPCs (and one Dual 500MHZ G4, very proud of it!!). I'm thinking of
> installing the server with large hard drives for basic storage
> reasons, and
> my main interrogative is if I can do it without worrying about loosing
> information in any way when I transfer files from classic Mac OS 8.x to X
> server and back. My basic question is if X server can handle information
> from a classic environment with it being Unix based, and of course if I'll
> be able to manipulate that information once it's stored in server...
>
> Concerning this I was wondering what I should choose to run my server,
> either version of X server (the yet to come 2.0 or the current 1.2 or
> 1.2.3v, think that's the name for the later!) or AppleShare I.P., which is
> based on Classic. I also needed some advice on the hardware, regarding the
> usage I should give to it: should I choose to make a major investment and
> buy a brand new G4 server or can I be well off with either one of my old
> 9xxxs (I doubt that data traffic will be huge), and finally,
> could I still
> use this hardware as a work station or would I have to dedicate it to the
> server's sole purpose...
>
> Thank you very much for your attention, any help is very welcomed.
>
> Juan Manuel Palacios.
>
>
> --__--__--

OSX Server (we run v1.2 and ASIP 6.3 on two machines) handles classic
information just fine. We use two partitions of ours as disk images to
assimilate our lab. These are HFS+ partitions, so we reboot and run Norton
on them about twice a year. The server just runs the rest of the time, and
with much better performance than ASIP.

However, OSX is not totally simple to set up and get the most use out of,
and it won't run on your 9600s. So if you have access to ASIP (either you
own it or can afford the extra $500) it might make sense to run that on a
9600 until OSXS v.2 comes out sometime in late Spring.

In the case of ASIP, you definitely want to dedicate the server (and keep
the extentions and other gizmos to a minimum), since an ill-behaved
application will take everything down. You can get away with running the
occasional application on OSX, since it is memory-protected and has
preemptive multitasking (i.e. one app can't hold up the whole show), but I
wouldn't want to run anything that requires the Classic environment--it's
just too slow and resource-hogging right now.

Perhaps a compromise would be to appropriate a beige G3 for your server and
buy whoever a new G4 workstation. It doesn't sound like you have enough
demand to need an (expensive) G4 server just yet.

Ben Wilkes



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