Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.nfs:1938 comp.windows.ms:10202 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdcad!brahms!phil From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Sun PC-NFS deficiencies Message-ID: <1991Mar12.231950.14828@amd.com> Date: 12 Mar 91 23:19:50 GMT References: <1991Mar12.050857.24535@ccad.uiowa.edu> <29#=N#}@rpi.edu> Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 43 In article rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes: |It seems to me that some of this is not up to Sun! Why didn't Microsoft |think to include PC-NFS as an option. (Of course, that would have Win3 knows about 9 different networks out of the box. You certainly can't say MS didn't show any effort in supporting networks. If Sun really cared about PC networking, they would have looked at something like emulating the Novell API. This would have given them a lot of mileage. But they didn't. Sun PC-NFS is more like a neat hack for Unix lovers that should have stayed in the labs. Unfortunately it made it out into the marketplace to be inflicted on helpless PC users. And to see Sun go around bragging about their great networks really galls me. |Why would they want to support DOS |UNIX interoperability? That would cut into their need to sell us |OS/2 ... Do you have any support for this, or are you just making up nasty lies at other people's expense? |A Windows 3.0 drive mounter would be nice (as would a windows telnet, |mail program, etc.) but I am willing to give Sun a little time. Why How much time do they need? Win3 has been out for about 10 months now. If Sun were serious about the PC market, they would have been in the Win3 beta program and had as much as 18 to 24 months to get ready for Win3. Of course, all this assumes you are really trying to be competitive in the PC market, instead of just peddling a cute but only partially useful hack. The problem is this crippled hack is preventing some users from running the solution that really meets their needs, because Sun offers it as a PC network and management believes Sun instead of their users. -- The government is not your mother. The government doesn't love you.