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From: cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.sys.novell,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: report on Sun PC-NFS 3.5
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.151927.30754@ccad.uiowa.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 91 15:19:27 GMT
References: <1991Mar21.185147.1920@val.com>
Organization: CAD-Research, U. of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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From article <1991Mar21.185147.1920@val.com>, by ben@val.com (Ben Thornton):
> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
> 
>>As a side note, it is really amazing how far some people will
>>go to defend a product like Sun's PC-NFS, instead of joining
>>with me to ask Sun to fix it. Why would you prefer to attack
>>someone who's telling you about ways to make your life easier?
> My life IS easier.  It would be a good deal less easy if I were on
> Novell, believe me.  My network PC clients *must* use the Sun as a
> server.  That is a requirement set forth by application software.
> I would turn the tables around and ask why Novell doesn't yet allow
> me to work with a Sun server?

One last comment, I promised I would stay out, but I forgot something.
If NOVELL is used, an entire machine is engulfed in serving the network.
If PC-NFS is used, UNIX, being the ultimate multitasker at this time (IMHO)
serves the network as just part of its work.  While it does this, other
users (note plural) can use the SUN (In my case SGI 4D) for regular
work.  No bother to the network.  This is a Great advantage in that
cycles are not lost to doing nothing, Which is what I saw a NOVELL
server doing.  BTW, that also means the NOVEL server software is pretty
good, the network I use generally has about 33% CPU load or lower.  Good
and BAD.  67% CPU is free, but not useable.

Even in Windows, this doesn't help, since the server runs NOVELL
software ONLY.

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