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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: 16 Mar 91 01:38:27 GMT
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In article <1333@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> dbl@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (David Lawson,,2933607,5999662) writes:
|This is just my guess but I bet Sun cares about Sun networking and if
|you happen to have a PC in your Unix shop then you'll probably want
|some files off the unix boxes, maybe mount some drives, that seems to
|be what PC-NFS is facilitating.

Sun seems to be trying to attract the Windows market. All the PR I've
seen concerning PC-NFS 3.5 has spilled a lot of ink about Windows
compatibility. But a knowlegable Windows user can easily see that Sun
PC-NFS' MS Windows compatibility is at best still underdeveloped.

You sound like the kind of guy who would be horrified at the idea
of a PC in your Unix shop. How on earth did it sneak in? Can't you
throw it in the trash where it belongs?

|Have you ever worked on a network of Sun workstations and servers,
|believe it's worth bragging about.

Sure, I have and I do. And I think the PC-NFS part is pitiful.

|   NFS a hack, ;) if you can stop frothing at the mouth for a moment
|consider this:  PC-NFS is a real trick for people who have unix machines,
|in particular Suns, around and want to mount Sun drives and share files

Especially people who only know the Unix way of doing things.
For people used to the MS Windows way of doing things, it's
quite another story.

|I think this whole argument is just another example of the baby-duck 
|syndrome/xenophobia that seems to overcome people when they use a computer.
|You know, if it's different, it's wrong!

Exactly, why is Sun making PC people do Unix things on their PC?
Because the Unix folks at Sun don't like PC methods?

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