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From: gregn@cadovax.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Distributed services...
Keywords: TCP/IP VMS
Message-ID: <2405@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 89 19:44:52 GMT
References: <24@ucunix.SAN.UC.EDU> <981@ks.UUCP>
Reply-To: gregn@cadovax.UUCP (The Remittance Man @ Versyss Inc. )
Organization: Versyss Inc.
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In article <981@ks.UUCP> drake@ibmarc.UUCP (Sam Drake) writes:
 
>DS provides some significant advantages over NFS ... improved security,
>file-over-file mounts, full UNIX filesystem semantics, etc.  
>
>I'm not an official spokesman, so ignore anything I say.  :-)

>Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 

DS provides some significant disadvantages over NFS ... impossible user 
interface, incredibly poor performance ( 100 Kbs best case), process load
instability, version incompatability. 

When is DS over IP going to be out?

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Greg Noel [Gn]  Versyss Inc, Torrance, Ca
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