Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.nfs:1401 sci.skeptic:5575 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:13477 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!athene!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,sci.skeptic,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: New product announcement: NFSper Message-ID: Date: 23 Oct 90 21:34:28 GMT References: Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Distribution: comp Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: athene In-reply-to: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu's message of 14 Oct 90 23:11:39 GMT On 14 Oct 90 23:11:39 GMT, nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) said: nelson> ESP Software would like to announce their newest product, nelson> NFSper. NFSper is a NFS server with an order of magnitude nelson> better performance than any existing NFS server. NFSper uses a nelson> proprietary technique to cache NFS requests on the client before nelson> they are transmitted to the server. Lab tests have shown that nelson> the NFS packet are available on the client an average of 100 nelson> microseconds before the client sends the request. Under test nelson> conditions, we have observed packets a full 250 uSec before the nelson> request transmission! Such blatant advertising! Not to mention that the technology used by ESP may be infringing on the original rights held by Prof. Donald Knuth for anticipative algorithms (the so called 'Pasadena street' style), as described in ACP vol. 1, chapter on coroutines. It is also true that Dr. Isaac Asimov, the distinguished inventor of tiotimoline, the intensional solvent, may have also a valid claim to rights on anticipative technologies. I cannot resist mentioning a major player in this market, which is rumoured be on the verge of adopting 'not responding -- still trying' as corporate trademark (unfortunately for them quick research has revealed that many of its competitors have already adopted it, at least in spirit), and maybe make a major product name change, something along the lines of "Archeological File System". -- Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk