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From: celerity@bucasb.bu.edu (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: NCS vs NFS+rpc (In Japanese/Kanji)
Message-ID: <577322163.6080@bucasb.bu.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 88 23:16:03 GMT
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In article <280@eagle_snax.UUCP> geoff@eagle_snax.UUCP ( R.H. coast near the top) writes:
>> Excuse me if I claim that this list is a bit of hype.  For example, Sun
>> declared that Apollo has "adopted ONC" based on the fact that we support
>> Sun NFS.  That's a fairly outlandish extrapolation, from our point of
>> view.  No one asked us if we thought we had "adopted ONC".
>Huh? Apollo has licensed the NFS  trademark and is offering an NFS
>product. "Adopted" has many interpretations, but this doesn't seem an 
>unreasonable one.  Certainly it doesn't imply exclusivity.
>And anyone who goes to Uniforum knows just how real NFS/ONC support
>is - almost all vendors (including IBM) offer it. No hype. 

The objection is to the term "adopted ONC"; this sounds like these
other vendors have committed corporate resources to the furtherance of
the "ONC platform".  In fact, most of these licensed NFS because they
were driven to by market pressure, long before the ONC buzzword (for
"Omnibus of Network Confusion"?) was a gleam in some Sun marketeer's
eye.  Many of these vendors, if asked, if they believed in UNIX, would
say "yes".   But if asked if they believe in ONC, they would hedge
about a need to play in mixed networks, or to supply ad hoc standards.

This is hardly "adopting" ONC, unless your idea of adoption involves
grudgingly letting a child stay in your house because that's the only
way you'll keep getting the foster care subsidy, and worrying about
what the little bastard will spring on you next... ;-)