shull@wharton-10.arpa (CHRISTOPHER E. SHULL) (01/15/87)
With all this discussion of NFS vs. RFS and which company is supporting which and whether NFS has critical momentum or not, I hear that at the Apollo annual sales meeting last week there was mention of Apollo's intent to support NFS+. Apparently the license is still being negotiated with Sun, but the two companies are close to an agreement. -Chris Christopher E. Shull The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania (215) 898-5930 Philadelphia, PA 19104-6366 shull@Wharton-10.ARPA ------
ekrell@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Eduardo Krell) (01/15/87)
I heard from very good sources that Apollo intends to support RFS.
I guess that if you offer both RFS and NFS, you can't lose.
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Eduardo Krell AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
{ihnp4,seismo,ucbvax}!ulysses!ekrellroy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (01/15/87)
In <2346@brl-adm.ARPA> shull@wharton-10.arpa (CHRISTOPHER E. SHULL) writes: > I hear that at the Apollo annual sales meeting last week there was > mention of Apollo's intent to support NFS+. What is "NFS+" as opposed to just plain "NFS"? Is this some revised version of the protocl, or does the "+" simply refer to YP, etc? -- Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 "you can't spell deoxyribonucleic without unix!"
SofPasuk@imagen.UUCP (01/16/87)
In article <1701@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>, ekrell@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Eduardo Krell) writes: > I heard from very good sources that Apollo intends to support RFS. > I guess that if you offer both RFS and NFS, you can't lose. > -- What would really be nice would be if Apollo gave much better support for their DomainIX product in general. Their BSD4.2 isn't real BSD4.2 and their System V isn't real System V. The C and Fortran'77 (no flames please) are very different than what one would otherwise expect on either of the above UNIX variants on a 680x0 system and present many incompatibilities with otherwise "portable" UNIX code. The BSD "lpr" spooler interface code just doesn't fully work. The tcp/ip is apparently out of spec, etc.! (Note: We have an Apollo network of approximately 50 DN300 and 5 DN330 diskless nodes as well as 8 DSP-80a and 2 DSP-90 fileservers.) I would be interested in other DomainIX users' experiences in the area of Apollo's UNIX software support!