Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!well!slf
From: slf@well.UUCP (Sharon Lynne Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: NFS for the mac
Message-ID: <12172@well.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 89 14:23:20 GMT
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Reply-To: slf@well.UUCP (Sharon Lynne Fisher)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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>I don't know of anyone who has NFS running on the Mac.  I had heard that
>CITI had a version that ran on the Mac, but I believe that it was funded
>by Apple and is not in the public domain.  Apple has the right to commercially
>ship that version or a version based on CITI code (again, I am not totally
>sure of these facts, so if someone knows different please jump in).  Apple,
>however, has not made any announcments that say they are going to ship it
>in the near future.  I would think that they do have plans on shipping a
>version sometime in the near future.  At least I hope so, we have been holding

This is correct.  I did a story on NFS for a magazine called MIPS, and in
the process interviewed the people at CITI. (The story's coming out in a
month or so.)  The CITI people (whose names escape me, but they're on the
net) said that Apple had funded their work and had the rights to it, and that
they didn't know of any other sources for NFS code for Apple.
	As recently as a month or six weeks ago, NFS was supposed to be
announced on June 12 with all the other Apple products.  Under nondisclosure,
I was briefed by Apple on May 3 or so.  (My nondisclosure ended on June 12.)
About a week afterward, they called and said the product would not be
released on June 12 after all.  I was not able to get an official reason why
it was being pulled, or any indication of if or when it might be released
after all.
	It's a cool product.  It includes an implementation of TCP/IP and an
NFS client with a typical Mac interface.
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