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From: golds@rlgvax.UUCP (Rich Goldschmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: RPC for the IBM PC
Summary: PC-NFS problems working with MS-Windows, RPC source potential
Message-ID: <1041@rlgvax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 88 15:57:36 GMT
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Organization: Computer Consoles Inc, Reston VA
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Applications built with the PC-NFS Toolkit will not work with Microsoft 
Windows.  They both need the timer interrupt, and this causes problems.
Also, when PC-NFS is running, you cannot run COMMAND.COM or .BAT (batch) 
files in a window or it will crash your PC.  PC-NFS also requires a large 
amount of memory (>100K).  Sun knows about these problems and is
unresponsive.

I wrote a version of RPC which is not Sun compliant for an Excelan card
when I worked with MITRE.  I have talked with my former department head
there and it may be possible for MITRE to release this code under copyright.
He asked that I document it first, which I have not had time to do yet
(I am getting paid to do other things now...).  If there is a great demand
for a version of RPC which will not work with Sun, I might be persuaded to
do what needs to be done to make this stuff available.  I would be especially 
motivated if someone agreed to make the changes needed to make it Sun 
compliant, and to make that new version available.

Rich Goldschmidt
CCI Computers

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