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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: Sun PC-NFS deficiencies
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Date: 15 Mar 91 03:24:16 GMT
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In article <2623@travis.csd.harris.com> leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds) writes:
|I am not sure that this is merely coincidental, but this "what is a REAL 
|network" seems to have sprouted (again) after an announcement by sun that 
|they have improved their pc-nfs product to be windows friendly (or something 

I have read "windows compatible" in a few places. I wonder what a real
windows application like excel is. I wonder what compatible is supposed
to mean when Sun says it.

|I believe (and I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong) that the 
|availability date for pc-nfs version 3xx PRE_DATED win3, therefore it would 
|be UNREASONABLE to expect it to work as is.  

Win3 was released May 1990. Beta testers had it quite a bit earlier.
Now PC-NFS 3.5 is out and it is STILL "NO NETWORK". I think that
is certainly slower than it could have been, if Sun did care about
the PC market.

|Another posting also compared the % of DOS based networks that use NFS 
|derivatives vs other solutions such as the (expensive) NOVELL, and quite 
|honestly if I was uSoft, I would try & cover the greatest percentage with 
|the least effort & pick up the rest later (or have it picked up by the 

Better yet, Sun COULD give PC-NFS Novell like interfaces. Just imagine
the leverage they could get out of that. But they'd have to care about
the PC market to consider such a thing. And getting Unix people to take
PCs seriously can be very difficult. Unix people like to think that they
know THE RIGHT WAY and that PC users have room temperature IQs so the
PC users should just do things the Unix way.

You want to check the printer queue, just telnet to the Sun.

|But now that SUN has addressed some of the problems, one should at least USE 
|the updated package before jumping into the throws of this emotional debate.

I think I know enough about 3.5 to have a solid basis for my conclusions.
If I have reached any incorrect conclusions I would appreciate corrections
from the people who do know.

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