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From: bak@sequent.UUCP (Bob Kasten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: How well do Sequents and Suns get on?
Message-ID: <27969@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 90 23:54:03 GMT
References: <6120@wolfen.cc.uow.oz> <27742@sequent.UUCP> <76999@uunet.UU.NET>
Reply-To: bak@crg2.UUCP (Bob Kasten)
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc
Lines: 23
Keywords: YP NFS

In article <76999@uunet.UU.NET> asp@uunet.UU.NET (Andrew Partan) writes:
>In article <27742@sequent.UUCP>, vandys@sequent.UUCP (Andrew Valencia) writes:
>> In article <6120@wolfen.cc.uow.oz> steve@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Steve Cliffe) writes:
>> >I am interested to find out how well Sequents and Suns get along in
>> 	They get along just fine--we have Suns in-house for just this
>> purpose.  And we definitely support both NFS and YP.
>
>However, one should note that Sequent's NFS is v-e-r-y old - from
>something like the SunOS 2.0 release!
>
>	--asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan)
>	ASN.1 Object Identifier: "{joint-iso-ccitt mhs(6) group(6) 157}"


Sequent's NFS functionality is based on Sun's NFS Release 3.0.1. It
includes bug fixes from later SUN releases. It does support Yellow
Pages. Sequent's NFS talks with other vendors' systems. However, newer
features of later NFS releases (e.g., Network Lock Manager) are not
currently supported.


Bob Kasten
Sequent Computer Systems