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From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: NFS future enhancements?
Message-ID: <42068@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Mon, 10-Nov-86 11:38:38 EST
Article-I.D.: beno.42068
Posted: Mon Nov 10 11:38:38 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Nov-86 21:23:43 EST
References: <8955@sun.uucp> <12400001@gorgo.UUCP>
Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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Summary: You miss the point

In article <12400001@gorgo.UUCP>, bsteve@gorgo.UUCP writes:
> 
> This is not an accurate evaluation. There are several orders of magnitude
> more MS-DOS PC's out there than there are UNIX boxes. Sun has exactly the 
> right idea.

The point is that Sun is a company selling Unix boxes. I am a Sun customer
because they sell Unix Boxes. I could not care less how many MS-DOS PC's exist.
I can't conceive of why I would want one. Sun doesn't sell them.
(Sun IPC doesn't count, since it doesn't run standalone.) They should support
their major product.  They don't (completely). Hell, their great MS-DOS NFS
implementation doesn't even run between two MS-DOS boxes.
The server MUST be a Sun.  So they don't even have an MS-DOS server to worry
about.

The reason I get so pissed off about this is not that Sun refuses to support
it. (That merely annoys me.) It is that they refuse to ADMIT that they
don't support Unix Semantics.

This are quotes from their latest glossy sales brochure:

	NFS gives you transparent file access to remote file systems,
	regardless of operating system.

	...

	NFS greatly enhances the usefulness of a local area network by
	allowing users to transparently access files anywhere on the LAN.
	Users do not need to learn any new commands, and no user training
	is required. The remote system actually appears to be local.


Now most rational people would interpret words like "transparent" and
phrases like "actually appears to be local" to mean what runs
correctly on a local file system, runs correctly on the remote system.

Now either their implementation is flawed or their advertising is
"misleading".

---rick