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From: izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
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Subject: Re: Nemacs and NeXT -- Insane pricing of 2.1J OS
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Date: 28 Jun 91 09:56:29 GMT
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In article <YOUKI.91Jun28143802@neptune.ics.osaka-u.ac.jp> 
youki@neptune.ics.osaka-u.ac.jp (Youki Kadobayashi) writes:

[Thank you for posting the list of Japanese-aware apps. and
commands.]

Is 2.1J actually shipping in Japan now?  If not, are
you speaking of experiences with a pre-release copy?

>	BuildDisk (file system is incompatible)
>
>The incompatibility of file system is serious problem if you have both
>SR 2.1 and SR 2.1J and they are net-less; you can't mount 2.1J's OD on
>2.1.

This is very bad.  
Why did they have to mess with the filesystem format?

Please elaborate on this.  Does it go backward? That is,
can you mount 2.1 OD/floppy on 2.1J system and do read/write?
If so, is the disk written on 2.1J (but initialized on 2.1)
still mountable on 2.1 system?

How about the compatibility of NetInfo config server/clients.
Can 2.1 NetInfo config server serve 2.1J clients?

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