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From: conliffe@caen.engin.umich.edu (Darryl C. Conliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Apollo's NFS !!
Summary: The current path to heterogeneous mediocrity
Message-ID: <911@blue.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 9 Jun 88 21:32:43 GMT
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In article <292@sdrc.UUCP>, crgabb@sdrc.UUCP (Rob Gabbard) writes:
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>    I feel DOMAIN is a much better remote file system implementation than NFS
> but it's not very heterogeneous.  Apollo needs to address this NFS problem.
> Once they get past this obstacle - how about a Yellow Pages implementation to 
> replace the registry ? Once again, I like the registry better than Yellow Pages
> but it's not very -- well, you know.
> 
Rob, I agree with you - I feel the Apollo solution in a number of areas
is superior.  Since we agree, just how important is being all the same,
versus being better?  I for one prefer the Apollo extensions that permit
preservation of file timestamps, for example, and feel the drive to a standard
that offers less results in less.  I'd vote to extend and expand DOMAIN
and forget X, but I just have to get my job running, not sell
workstations...
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 Darryl C. Conliffe  conliffe@caen.engin.umich.edu  (313) 721-6069
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