Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Message-ID: <1990Jul31.190040.22224@alphalpha.com> Date: 31 Jul 90 19:00:40 GMT References: <7054.26adcc1e@swift.cs.tcd.ie> <4bd2e824.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <2121@cernvax.UUCP> Organization: asi Lines: 34 In article <2121@cernvax.UUCP> achille@cernvax.UUCP (achille petrilli) writes: >Apollo has ported SUN RPC to Domain/OS. Otherwise there could be no NFS >product from Apollo. So the library does exist in Apollo but, I guess, >is not distributed. Yes and no. The Apollo implementation of NFS is a complete rewrite from scratch. Only the name is licensed from Sun. This may or may not be true of the RPC library as well, I'm not sure. >I feel frustrated because Apollo has done the work and is not allowing >other people to benefit from it. >This sort of 'beat the user' attitude will end up killing Apollo. You've got the tense wrong. :-/ Carlton pointed out the problem, it's been there from the beginning. Apollo does not have the resources to support every piece of code they would like, even if it's used internally (frankly I have no idea how most people survive on an Apollo using only the stuff that is shipped). However Apollo's policy is not to ship unsupported software (yes I know, much of what's shipped is unsupported in fact, but they don't want to add to that). Persuade them to ship unsupported software and you'll might get a flood of stuff. Maybe. Unfortunately it takes a fair amount of time to even ship unsupported tools (installation, compiling with new compilers, making sure it at least runs....), so there's no guarantee. In the six years I was there the only "unsupported" thing I managed to get out the door were the keydef files in /domain_examples. -kee -- Alphalpha Software, Inc. | motif-request@alphalpha.com nazgul@alphalpha.com |----------------------------------- 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | Proline BBS: 617/641-3722 I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.