Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!apple!chuq
From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: NFS mounting from Macs
Message-ID: <31717@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 26 May 89 15:10:10 GMT
References: <415@wizard.UUCP> <7437@hoptoad.uucp>
Organization: Life is just a Fantasy novel played for keeps
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>Not even Apple makes a Mac their gateway to the Internet -- they use a
>Vax running Berkeley Unix, and recently upgraded it significantly
>rather than switch to A/UX.

John's made a couple of assumptions here that aren't correct. The primary
reason we use a Vax for our gateway is because at any one time there are 40
or 50 people logged in. No currently released Mac can handle that many users
-- and putting the multiple Eagles and things that keep the data (and
NETNEWS) on that machine would also be hard to duplicate on an A/UX box.

My group is also planning on putting an A/UX box on the net in the next few
weeks (hopefully...) for support purposes, so there will be A/UX machines on
the net soon. (Actually, I know of some at other sites that are already out
there).

John assumes we don't use A/UX because we can't. Wrong. We don't use a Mac
for our internet gateway because we aren't hyper about wedging our hardware
into places where the technology is inappropriate, and we never claimed that
an A/UX box would be able to be a 45 user Internet gateway and Usenet
host...



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