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From: geoff@eagle_snax.UUCP ( R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch
Subject: Re: RFS vs. NFS
Message-ID: <278@eagle_snax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 18:31:12 GMT
References: <326@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <275@ksr.UUCP> <7556@brl-smoke.ARPA>
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Summary: much used? well, some....

In article <7556@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> ... one of the explicit design goals of NFS was to work not
> only with UNIX filesystems but also with MS-DOS filesystems.

And a few other popular beasts like VAX/VMS, Crays, mainframes,
not to mention Macs, Amigas....

> (Apparently somebody thought there was money to be extracted
> from the IBM PC fad.)  I don't know if NFS was actually much
> used with MS-DOS.  

Well, PC-NFS is now up to release 3 with sales in five figures.
[I don't think I'm supposed to give the actual number.]


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