Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!pyramid!pyrps5.pyramid.com!mre From: mre@pyrps5.pyramid.com (Mike Eisler) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: (was slashes, now NFS devices) Message-ID: <147163@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 5 Mar 91 19:05:45 GMT References: <468@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@pyramid.pyramid.com Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation, Mountain View Lines: 19 In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <468@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) writes: >> Nobody, including RFS, has ever come up with networked devices in any >> sort of general fashion. > >Intel's OpenNET seems to do a pretty good job of it. Consider (bridge is >running System V/386, xds13 is running Xenix/286): >... Larry said "general". RFS is capable of doing Intel to Intel transactions as well as anything. However can OpenNet perform device accesses between ---- 386's and Sparcs? >Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com >+1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?" -Mike Eisler mre@pyramid.com