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From: stan@cs.uiuc.edu (Seemong Tan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Replacing Novell Netware with NFS
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Date: 1 May 91 21:56:57 GMT
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In article <5847@eastapps.East.Sun.COM>, geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) writes:
|> Quoth rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) (in <7447@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>):
|>   There isn't
|> #any public-domain client implementation yet, but my guess is it would take
|> #less than 3 person-months of work to create one using SOSS as a base.  
|>
|> Hmmm... I think that if you ask any of the groups that have actually
|> built such a beast (Sun, FTP, B&W, etc.) they'd say that your estimates
|> of the time and complexity seem a little optimistic :-) 

So I guess putting an undergrad on it as a summer project would be
out of the question then... rats :-).

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

stan