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From: brian@apollo.COM (Brian Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: NFS groups limited to 8
Message-ID: <441b11d2.18e92@apollo.COM>
Date: 28 Jun 89 19:24:00 GMT
References: <1619@zen.co.uk> <4480014@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>
Reply-To: brian@apollo.COM (Brian Holt)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Apollo Workstation Division
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>>> I don't suppose that HP/the rest of the world are going to come up
>>> with some better protocol/network environment.
>
>>And if we do, someone out there will beat up on us for producing something
>>"non-standard".

Actually, we already have something better, but it just doesn't run under 
HP/UX!  HP's DomainOS operating system (SysV.3 & 4.3 BSD) includes 
support for a fully transparent network environment (and, by the way
we have been beat up for it being non-standard) in addition to the
standard stuff.  

OSF currently has a Request for Technology out for just this area.  
When we start shipping machines that use OSFix (or whatever they
call it), I assume we'll support whatever new thing they come out
with, and it will be a standard.


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