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From: dave@spool.cs.wisc.edu (Dave Cohrs)
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Subject: Re: NFS
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Date: 30 Mar 88 21:44:58 GMT
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In article <303@unixprt.UUCP> paf@unixprt.UUCP (Paul Fronberg) writes:
>Another point in the on going RFS-NFS wars:
>NFS seems to be coupled with TCP/IP.

A nitpic: NFS, as used on most machines, uses UDP/IP.  TCP is too slow
and is stateful.  I'm know there are other NFS implementations (Lachman
did/is doing one over ISDN).  Nothing in NFS itself assumes that it
uses UDP.  The biggest problem I would see with using a X.25 is that
X.25 is stateful, which would probably make NFS slower.

dave
Dave Cohrs
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