Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!fernwood!decwrl!ucbvax!hoptoad!gnu
From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Using IFS to implement an NFS client for OS/2
Keywords: OS/2 NFS IFS client
Message-ID: <9627@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 12 Jan 90 09:48:29 GMT
References: <1990Jan8.044311.1912@larouch.uucp> <10194@microsoft.UUCP>
Organization: Grasshopper Group in San Francisco
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alistair@microsoft.UUCP (Alistair BANKS) wrote:
> Of course, this work would best be done by someone who has a major
> interst in NFS, such as Sun - If this is important to you I might
> suggest some lobbying in that direction to let Sun know that a large
> number of people would like this product.

This sounds quite misleading to me.  I think at this point it's
*Microsoft* who had better get on the stick and put NFS on "their"
OS.  That is, if they want "their" OS to talk to anybody else's
file systems.  I doubt the lack of Microsoft connectivity is strangling
Sun sales.

Last I heard you couldn't even get TCP/IP for OS-1/2.  Architec was
selling an OS-1/2 NeWS, but it couldn't network with any other NeWS
because they couldn't find a TCP.  Though I must say I haven't been
tracking OS-1/2 closely.  I figured why buy Unix over ten slow years of
development when you can get the real thing today -- and without being
stuck on intel hardware or with one vendor.
-- 
John Gilmore      {sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid}!hoptoad!gnu      gnu@toad.com
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