Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.nfs:1872 comp.arch:21189 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell.com!decwrl!olivea!uunet!mcsun!ukc!acorn!unipalm!leo From: leo@unipalm.uucp (E.J. Leoni-Smith) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.arch Subject: Re: Network file service bogosities Message-ID: <1991Mar4.213641.28752@unipalm.uucp> Date: 4 Mar 91 21:36:41 GMT References: <28975@cs.yale.edu> Organization: Unipalm Ltd., Cambridge, England Lines: 24 Hmm. Piercarlo has just gone to great lengths to restate the underlying engineering princilples of the network. Well it probably needed saying. I notice that his email domain is a '.edu' We have a famous remark that is quoted here as a result of a frustrated person who sent back some PC networking software after utterly failing to get it to work (we have sold tens of thousands of same). "I am not entirely stupid: I have a degree in computer science..." I have a degree in engineering, and sometimes I must confess that I have a personal bias against academics who endlessly obfuscate simple issues Like the man siad - don't send data down a wire if you can help it! (prove me wrong - you ARE a computer scientist) Likewise all power to the guys at SUN for taking a poorly specified (but practical) networking standard, and adapting it for a useage (LAN file serving) for which it was not designed. THATS engineering. In the real world.