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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!yorkohm!minster!dcw-a
- From: dcw-a@minster.york.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Replay Harrier @ Newcastle
- Message-ID: <722261669.8690@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 12:14:29 GMT
- References: <BxtM3D.F0s@cen.ex.ac.uk> <BxwqHC.M4n@cen.ex.ac.uk> <1992Nov18.233657.10350@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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- In article <1992Nov18.233657.10350@infodev.cam.ac.uk> crj10@phx.cam.ac.uk (Clive Jones) writes:
- >In article <BxwqHC.M4n@cen.ex.ac.uk>, CDLatham@cen.ex.ac.uk (C.D.Latham) writes:
- >>
- >> I don't think you quite understood what Clive Jones meant Gary. He
- >> doesn't mean nfs on a UNIX machine, I think, but pcnfs on an Arc.
- >
- >Well, yes, except it's not called _PC_nfs on the Arc. (-8
- >
- >> Theoretically it could work by exporting a directory on a UNIX machine
- >> containing the Replay files to the world. It would be a bit hard to
- >> hack the files if they were on CD ROM (:-).
- >
- >It would be a bit hard to hack if it was a read-only nfs partition, too...
- >The files would really have to be downloaded to a hard disc, if the server was
- >to stand any chance of servicing more than one viewer at once. My thoughts were
- >that Acorn, in particular, will presumably have them all on a hard disc
- >somewhere anyway.
- >
- >> Ftp between JANET sites with JIPS goes at about 15 - 20 Kbytes per
- >> second and I suspect Replay files need a bit more bandwidth than that
- >> so even if one could mount the directory they couldn't be used
- >> directly.
- >
- >I think your JIPS link is slower than ours, then. The bandwidth required would
- >be 60Kb/sec for the 12.5fps demos, or twice that for 25fps (obviously). I
- >reckon more than a few sites can stomach that.
- >
- >--Clive.
-
- Hang on, I thought replay would run off a floppy, at only 27Kb/sec, so JIPS
- shouldn't be a problem (even a dead slow one)...?
-
- Doug.
-