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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Apollo's NFS !!
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Date: 9 Jun 88 18:32:52 GMT
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Actually, Apollos NFS implementation can be used for any activity
which does its I/O through the streams (IOS) facility. You can read
or write unformatted Fortran data files via NFS (which a REC type files
on the Apollo). You can execute programs via NFS because the loader
bypasses the streams manager (which is where the NFS mount point is
handled by the type manager) and maps the executable file directly
into memory. The problem lies not in NFS, but in the loader.


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