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From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
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Subject: Re: Sun PC-NFS deficiencies
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Date: 13 Mar 91 04:32:22 GMT
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In article <1991Mar12.231950.14828@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>And to see Sun go around bragging about their great networks
>really galls me.
Sun has done a fantastic job in reaching for truly seamless
networking in the Unix world.  Today's Unixes are better in
network-awareness and transparency -- hassle free -- than any
PC/Mac system I've seen.  A better-thoughtout, mature and 
debugged OS/2 might someday have been somewhere close, but 
totally that's out of the running now.  Hacks
on MS-DOS and the 8086 memory model are a pain in the butt.
I use a 386 box and the amount of juggling going into getting OS
functions up and running is a nightmare.

SunOS 4.1.1 runs today on machines of today and delivers the
goods.  Machines running SunOS can talk with alien hardware
running Unix with ease.

PC-NFS is a small part of this game.  The Unix market has a life
of it's own, you know.  *I* agree with you that PC-NFS is not
great; I prefer Beame and Whiteside products for the purpose.

I'm just saying that Sun's work on networking is truly incredible
and they deserve bragging about it.  Bill Joy is a genius and a
visionary, and there aren't too many like him.  As of today,
there is > 10 years of work by high quality hackers (not the
kinds of people Microsoft hires off campuses) going into
SunOS; it's not easy replicating it overnight.  That's the major
lesson of the OS/2 experience to me: a company which is good at
writing word processors and passable writing compilers is guaranteed
to be a disaster writing operating systems.  They're a different
game altogether.

MHO obviously!
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