magorian@UMD5.UMD.EDU.UUCP (04/07/87)
Does anyone know the status of implementations of NFS on the Mac (who's working on it, details of how it's coming)? Will Sun be putting out a version them- selves, similar to PC-NFS? Thanks for the info... Dan Magorian magorian@umd5.umd.edu Comp Sci Ctr, Univ of MD
johnmark@WHITNEY.STANFORD.EDU.UUCP (04/08/87)
Just smoke, no fire - but there must be a smoke making machine here somewhere: I have been trying to purchase TOPS-unix for a Sun. After taking with the vendors involved I get the notion that Sun is doing some closed door intense discussion to decide what to do with TOPS. I believe they are hoping it will be the ticket to bring the Mac into the NFS world, since functionally TOPS and NFS are similar. Probably they are making some hard choices about what of each standard they can preserve in the Mac environment. But this is all speculation... What actually do I know? 1) Centram is refering TOPS -unix customers back to their unix vendors. 2) Sun has not made TOPS available for SUN OS. 3) No one can say anything about Mac NFS. I hope they will make an announcement soon. -j
honey@CITI.UMICH.EDU.UUCP (04/08/87)
citi (the center for information technology integration at the university of michigan) is writing an nfs client for the macintosh. (note that apple has (or will have) nfs under a/ux; our work is targeted toward the mac+.) the design is complete, the implementation nearly so (would be, were we not trapped in a twisty maze of turning GetCatInfo calls), and testing has begun in earnest. citi's macnfs is based on the citi macip drivers, described here a few weeks ago; rpc/xdr is also implemented as a driver. citi's macnfs project is partially supported by apple computer. peter
dk1z#@ANDREW.CMU.EDU.UUCP (04/08/87)
This implies that the drivers are complete and working to some extent. Any time estimate on their release? -David
verber@tut.cis.ohio-state.EDU.UUCP (04/08/87)
I have been dealing rather extensively with Centram in the past few weeks. We have TOPS running on our Pyramids with numerous copies for Macintoshes (300). We have also had exstensive contact with Sun. I am under the impression that Sun will be taking over Centram because they have a big market share of IBM-PC and Apple Macintosh networking products. I it *my belief* that Centram will continue to sell the TOPS product. TOPS and PC-NFS are targetting two very different markets. TOPS has been up to now targetted at small offices that have Macs, PCs, or a mixture of the two. It is a good product for this kind of environment. PC-NFS is much more expensive, and assumes an existing network with larger machines. I would guess that Sun is trying to have products with would meet a broad spectrum of needs, not replace TOPS with PC-NFS. Mac-NFS exists. The excellent work was done by the University of Mich. I believe the work was sponsered by Apple, and based on Sun's NFS code. I haven't heard very promising things about the product getting out because of various lawyers (there are three layers: U of Mich., Sun and Apple). Cheers, ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Science Department Mark A. Verber The Ohio State University verber@ohio-state.arpa +1 (614) 292-7344 cbosgd!osu-eddie!verber