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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: PC-NFS & Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.011522.19254@amd.com>
Date: 16 Mar 91 01:15:22 GMT
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In article <1991Mar14.133608.8218@ccad.uiowa.edu> cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI) writes:
|Ok, I'm confused.  I print, use network drives, Windows puts the little
|'Net' insignia on mounted drives.  Why is this NO NETWORK.  Just because

For one thing, because it doesn't let Windows control print queues or
printer mounting.

|If you need to mount drives from Windows, mount a bunch
|before running windows.

This is the kind of thing Sun tries to palm off as WINDOWS COMPATIBLE.
And you are proof that there are plenty of otherwise intelligent people
who don't mind such deceptions. In fact, plenty of people who don't
even know that it could be more user-friendly.

|In addition, I though Sun wrote Tops???  Tops DEFINITELY works on Macs.

Sun bought the TOPS company. I believe they couldn't figure out what to
do with it, the MAC community not being the kind of market they
understood (or wanted to understand), and have since sold it.

I have to give them credit for making the right decision with TOPS.

It sounds like the same thing is happening with PC-NFS which can only
be good for everyone.  Perhaps PC-NFS marketing will have to pay more
attention to what the business community wants when the ties to Sun are
severed.

By the way, don't think that I hate Unix or Sun. I love Unix, in its
place.  I use Suns all the time and think they are wonderful for their
intended purpose.  But I know that there are places where there are
better ways than the Unix way.

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The government doesn't love you.