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From: poffen@molehill (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC UNIces
Message-ID: <1989Dec27.215955.1081@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 27 Dec 89 21:59:55 GMT
References: <976@crash.cts.com> <2542@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger ATE, San Jose, CA
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In article <2542@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> ben@wri.COM writes:
>In article <976@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
>>That's the exact logic that I think Sun followed and they damn near own the
>>NFS market.
>
>I thought Sun *did* own the NFS market (having invented it and all)...
>


Sun may have invented it, but NFS (and its underlying protocols, RPC and XDR)
are all in the public domain.


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