Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.nfs:2010 comp.windows.ms:10429 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!siesoft!jlk From: jlk@siesoft.co.uk (Jim Kissel) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Sun PC-NFS deficiencies Message-ID: <1991Mar14.084232.14838@siesoft.co.uk> Date: 14 Mar 91 08:42:32 GMT References: <29#=N#}@rpi.edu> <1991Mar12.231950.14828@amd.com> Sender: usenet@siesoft.co.uk (NNTP Poster) Organization: Siemens System Developement Group, Reading, UK. Lines: 45 In article <1991Mar12.231950.14828@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes: >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? > There are lies, damn lies, statistics and standards. Perhaps you haven't heard of X/Open, which is supported by 19 of the bigest computer manufactures in the world. As for interoperability between DOS and UNIX, not only are people interested, X/Open has a working group dedicated to PC <-> Unix interworking and oddly enough one of the major outside contributers to this group is Microsoft. People are interested in PC <-> Unix interworking and so in Microsoft!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Kissel Telephone +44 344 863 222 Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems 344 850 461 (Direct line) Systems Development Group Fax +44 344 850 452 Siemens Nixdorf House Domain jlk@siesoft.co.uk Oldbury, Bracknell, Berkshire j.kissel@xopen.co.uk RG12 4FZ Great Britain UUCP ....{ukc,athen}!siesoft!jlk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------