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From: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Is pc-nfs useful to anyone?
Keywords: pc-nfs, unix, sun
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Date: 19 Mar 91 15:41:56 GMT
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I'm staying out of this flamefest, but I want to comment on one
observation by Leo Hinds (in <2660@travis.csd.harris.com>):
# <answering Stan's question about whether Phil saw 3.5>
#I have also asked the same question, but received no answers.  Considering 
#the fact that Phil started this (typed) verbal diarrhea right after the 
#announcement, but MORE IMPORTANTLY BEFORE SUN started shipping the product, 
#I would have to say no, he has not seen the product.  Now if he (or others 
#@ AMD) were beta sites (my guess is not for long after this), he might 
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#have seen it then.

It is not our policy to comment on who our beta customers are. However
I would like to emphasize that AMD is a long-standing customer of ours,
that we value their business, and that (IMHO) Phil is not particularly
representative of the AMD people we deal with. (He said as much in once
of his first postings in this thread.) We wouldn't allow anything like
this, um, "debate", to get in the way of future beta or similar
agreements with AMD or anyone else.

-- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM)   --
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