Re: is netware multithreaded?

Eric W. Worden wrote:
>
> anyone know if netware is "true" multithreaded? we're running oracle
> 7.3.2.3 as a multithreaded server on hp-ux. had a discussion with a
> fellow dba about multithreaded server and the advantages. his response
> was that from the literature and books he read, "oracle could only run
> as dedicated server on unix and that it was multithreaded on netware".
> my response was: huh? i think your info is outdated and i think you
> have it backwards, only dedicated on netware and the choice on unix to
> run either.
>
> as far as i know, netware is fifo for file and print processes,
> therefore, no concurrency. appreciate any clarification on this.
>
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I think you have got it correct. As far as I know the Netware version doesn't support concurrency, although I have only used 7.2 for Netware. I know for a fact though that the multithreaded server runs on many flavors of Unix though.

Josh Davis
josh_d_at_magicnet.net (J&C Davis Consulting) Received on Mon Apr 21 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT