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From: hadeishi@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (mitsuharu hadeishi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NFS on the amiga, or, Amiga does this already
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Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 13:38:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: husc6.2457
Posted: Fri Jul  3 13:38:56 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 13:42:25 EDT
References: <1521@botter.cs.vu.nl> <312@louie.udel.EDU>
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Reply-To: hadeishi@husc4.UUCP (mitsuharu hadeishi)
Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center
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Keywords: NFS, multi-tasking envy, Macintosh
Summary: This should be hyped

In article <312@louie.udel.EDU> rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) writes:
. . .
>   Then i see this on comp.sys.appletalk:
>In article <1521@botter.cs.vu.nl> jim@cs.vu.nl (Jim van Keulen) writes:
>>We have a UNIX environment (SUNS's, VAX'es) here with Ethernet (TCP/IP).
>>We also have MacIntoshes and AppleTalk, so questions arise
>>about connecting these systems.
>>More specifically: "Can UNIX machines and MacIntoshes communicate,
>>can UNIX machines be used as file servers for MacIntoshes". 
>>What (public domain) software is available and how can get it.
>
>   Once again: Amiga does this now, has been doing it for a while,
>and it works. I sure hope Commodore is going to pick up on this!
>It is just as important as slick graphics to my way of thinking- that 
>is, if C= is really serious about selling to Nasa (who use suns)
>and 'real world' companies.
. . .

	Yes, exactly.  Much has been made of the fact that the new
IBM PS computers are designed to network more effectively, how the DEC VAXen
network better than the IBM minis, how this is a big competitive
advantage for DEC, and so forth.  The fact that the Amiga runs NFS
transparently and without any problems (augmented by the fact that the
Amiga filesystem is very UNIX-like and the Amiga, being multitasking,
has an advantage over IBM NFS implementations) should be a big
marketing advantage particularly to the mid-size high-tech companies who
don't care as much about name brand as performance and flexibility.
The fact that the Amiga networks as well as the VAXen do, with a
multitasking environment to support it properly (background data transfers
and so forth), should really be a big marketing tool.  Just having
articles in the trade journals about the Amiga's networking capabilities
should be a boost for the machine's prestige even if it doesn't mean
much to many users.

				-Mitsu