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From: rickn@ontologic.UUCP (Rick Niziak)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: What is Beame & Whiteside PC-NFS
Summary: What is BWNFS you may ask...
Keywords: PCNFS
Message-ID: <825@ontologic.UUCP>
Date: 2 Nov 90 21:59:38 GMT
References: <5130@rupert.misemi>
Organization: Ontologic Inc., Billerica, MA
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In article <5130@rupert.misemi>, banner@rupert.misemi ( pcuser) writes:
> Can someone tell me what is Beame & Whiteside(sp.?)
> PC-NFS ? Is it a new PC network NFS product or what ? 
> 
> 
> Email me details if possible, else post....
> 
> Thanks muchly.
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Essentially, BWNFS is a byproduct of Excelan NFS .. When Excelan was bought
out by NOVELL, Novell was not interested in NFS only NOVELL networks..
So Carl Beame in Canada I believe purchased the product.. The product
is GREAT.. Sun liked the peroduct so much that I believe that they had him
to do modifications to Sun's lock daemon for NFS purposes.. The product and 
service are superlative.. Best of all the product is pretty cheap $195.00
(U.S. $$$) and works with many boards especially the Excelan 205T and 215T
these boards are great in that they store most of the NFS memory on the board
which leaves the 640K dos area pretty much untouched compared to Sun/NFS.
It also supports 3comm and Western Digital cards as well... Well worth the $$
 
Their address is:
        Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd.
        P.O. Box 8130
        Dundas, Ontario
        Canada
        L9H5E7
        Phone:  (416)648-6556
        Fax:    (416)648-6556

And by the way.. This product also works with Windows 3.0

Rick Niziak
Systems Manager
Ontologic Inc.
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