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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: <1991Mar28.042923.8619@ccad.uiowa.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 91 04:29:23 GMT
References: <149853@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Organization: CAD-Research, U. of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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From article <149853@pyramid.pyramid.com>, by lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell):
> In article <1991Mar27.151927.30754@ccad.uiowa.edu> cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI) writes:
>>
>>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.  
>  
>  Well, if you run Portable Netware on the server, it too can be
>  doing other useful work while servicing Netware clients
>  (assuming a Unix O/S or other multitasker on the server)

WHICH UNIX????  (bsd, sysv, hp-ux, irix, unicos, etc).

I checked this out with my net manager.  It seems you are right.  statement
retracted.  Can you do that on a net???  heh, heh...  But the story
I got was that this 'portable' server is not so portable, but then,
based on the resources I allocated for porting the SUN pcnfsd.c to the SGI,
neither is it.

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