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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: NFS for 4.3BSD: Mt. Xinu or what?
Message-ID: <13669@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 00:44:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: teknowle.13669
Posted: Mon Jun 15 00:44:34 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Jun-87 01:49:27 EDT
References: <122@cantuar.UUCP>
Reply-To: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP (Michael Khaw)
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Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA
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Keywords: NFS, 4.3BSD, Sun

In article <122@cantuar.UUCP> robert@cantuar.UUCP (Robert Biddle) writes:
...
+use space on a Sun FileServer we hope to get. We thought getting NFS
+software for the Vax would be simple, but is it? Sun have offered us
+their NFS distribution which is for 4.2 and is US$1,000; Mt. Xinu have their
+integrated 4.3 offering for US$3,000 (plus a license upgrade for us).
+Both are university prices.
+I would think there are other options, but we don't know them. We have RPC,
...

DEC's Ultrix 2.0 is supposed to have NFS.  You might not care that much since
you already have 4.3bsd, but it's an alternative to consider.  I expect DEC
only sells their NFS bundled with Ultrix.

Mike Khaw
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