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From: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga marketing: Where, how, and why
Message-ID: <281@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 15:27:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 11 15:27:24 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 11:40:49 EDT
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Keywords: markets, media, changing Amiga image,NFS, Sun, interoperability
Summary: Standards such as NFS and TCP can help the Amiga


   Morgan Stanley just bought $1M worth of Suns, citing the existence
of NFS as a major factor. According to a correspondant from U. Lowell
(sorry i forgot your name!) NFS works on the Amiga. I do not know
why Commodore is not pushing the Ameristar product if it works, because
the Amiga ought to be quite an attractive machine, especially if 
the ether card supports all the other TCP protocols too. Notice that Apple
has begun delivering a crude sort of NFS-like system for the MAC.
But judging from other submissions the Amiga NFS can interoperate
(lovely and important buzz-word, that) with Suns. I do not plan 
to upgrade to a hard disk, but eventually maybe i can get the 
card instead- and as our many Sun 3/50s have convinced me, 
with NFS you sure don't need a disk per CPU!. For $700
or so I get 1.5 Gb of disk, a good deal ...
   Xenix does not yet have NFS, MAC certainly does not, Amiga 
does, and it is compatible with suns and therefore presumably 
the VAX world. Commodore, is this an opportunity? Looks like
one.

-- 
Ron Minnich