Alright... for this kind of application, the easiest way for performance boost is by adding RAM to server for caching. But I see that you already have 128 MB in the server, should be more than enough.<br>
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I see that you have implemented RAID 1. It's very safe, yes, but it have some speed penalty. Although somehow the penalty will be lessened if you put each hard drive in different SCSI channel (I believe your RAID controller have 3 channels). Put on board cache on that RAID controller, and it will be even better.<br>
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What protocol being used in client/server? I suggest ONLY TCP/IP for maximum performance. If that's the case, have you upgrade Win95's TCP/IP stack? If not, try downloading it (Winsock 2) from support.microsoft.com and search for "wsetup*.exe" if I'm not mistaken. <br>
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My opinion, for a DOS workstation your config is overkill. Cyrix 133 is enough for the job (but frankly I have no idea why it'd refresh the screen faster - perhaps it's problem between motherboard - NIC). <br>
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Also, for this kind of uses, really NetWare is a much better choice. It have killer disk access performance, because of good code, and also because its cache-algorithm is very efficient.<br>
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I was involved in this kind of project too, and I just need to add more RAM to the NetWare server to substantially improve disk performance. <br>
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Now I remember, yes I got performance problem too (but resolved it). It was because the distance from server - workstation was too far. Using some NIC will be okay because they can extend the limitation of Ethernet, but some NIC don't have that capability. After I install repeaters & correct connectors installation, all workstations runs very, very quickly.<br>
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Phew... anything related to your case so far?<br>
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