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From: keith@ca.excelan.com (Keith Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: NFS Support in NetWare
Message-ID: <1991Mar10.043216.7114@novell.com>
Date: 11 Mar 91 15:51:26 GMT
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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1991 04:32:16 GMT

In article <6807@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:
>But my argument was basically to dramatize the difference in the
>functionality/price ratio between the Novell NFS NLM and NFS products
>from Unix vendors, which always include an NFS client with the NFS
>server.  Novell need not get into this business because NFS client
>packages for DOS are available from other vendors.

Look, if you want to talk about the networking capabilities that come "free"
with operating systems then *YES* UNIX<->UNIX TCP/IP networking comes
free with many of the better version of UNIX, including NFS client and
server. I know of no version of UNIX that bundles DOS internetworking
capabilities. Sun could throw the PC-NFS executables into SunOS,
but they haven't.

On the other hand, multitudenous DOS/PC networking capabilities are
what come "free" with our operating system. Just as UNIXs typically
don't bundle their DOS interoperability options, we haven't bundled our
UNIX interoperability options. Both Sun and Novell employ people who
need money to pay mortgages. This, I believe, is why the world looks
the way it does. Sorry.....

Keith
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