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From: rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: PCNFS on Apollos
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Date: 2 Aug 90 23:07:27 GMT
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In article <9008021356.AA05757@mwunix.mitre.org>, okay@TAFS.MITRE.ORG
("Okay, S J") writes:
  In <9008011858.AA27274@humu.nosc.mil> kent@humu.nosc.mil (Kent K.
Kuriyama) writes
  >I have heard that the NFS implementation from HP/Apollo does not 
  >support PC-NFS.  If this is true has anyone done the port of 
  >PC-NFSD?

  ...

  Why can't HP just break down and play with others!?!?!?

They did.  Apollo has NFS (although I've heard the server side doesn't work
too well).  Does PC-NFS use a different protocol from regular NFS?  I
thought all NFS implementations were supposed to play together?  Why don't
the PC-NFS folks just break down and play with the others?