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From: jdarcy@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff d'Arcy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Re: Umax4.3 & NFS (& shared memory size)
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Date: 17 Nov 89 19:14:24 GMT
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como@max.bnl.gov (Andrew T. Como):
> Has anyone heard when the release of Umax4.3 is going to
> be out.  It was due in October and I have heard nothing yet.

someone else [attribution lost]: 
> Does anybody know if it supports more than 64k of shared memory?
>
> (Umax 4.2 had this limitation and it was the *only* reason we went
> to Umax V; regretting it ever since)

goldman@encore.com (Steve Goldman):
>   Huh? I don't know of any such limitation on Umax4.2. I've run programs on
> Umax4.2 that used many megabytes of shared memory as far back as early 1986.
> There must be more to this story...

Andrew Como:
> This is typical of Encore....Goldman look at the original
> posting.
> 
> 	When is bsd4.3 and nfs client coming out.  Many sites are 
> being very patient and AGAIN Encore is making promises it cannot keep.
> 
> 	We bought NFS in July of 1988 and nothing yet with the client.

At risk of getting myself in trouble by being rude to a customer...

I don't know Steve Goldman or what role he serves at Encore.  It seems to me
that he's trying to gather information that will allow him to answer *one*
of the questions posed here.  It's completely unfair to expect that he should
therefore answer *all* of the above questions.  Mr. Como, would you perhaps
prefer that Mr. Goldman provide premature answers regarding problems that
are outside his area?  I think that the complaints we've seen from others in
this group refer to *exactly* that behaviour, and you shouldn't encourage it.

We're all in this together, folks.  Like everyone else I see around me, I
want Encore's customers to be happy.  I'd like this newsgroup to become a
forum where Encore customers, developers, support and sales people, etc.
can discuss issues in a mutually beneficial manner.  Somehow I don't think
that taking  pot-shots at any Encore employee unfortunate enough to speak up
will help anyone.

Considering the forum, I'd like to strengthen my usual disclaimer.  The
thoughts I've expressed in this article are *entirely* my own; they do
not represent Encore's official policy or the beliefs of any other Encore
employee in any way or to any degree.

Jeff d'Arcy     OS/Network Software Engineer     jdarcy@encore.com
  Encore has provided the medium, but the message remains my own