[comp.protocols.nfs] Picky, picky, picky

geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (04/19/91)

Quoth robin@gradient.gradient.com (Dr R.P. Alston) (in <285@gradient.gradient.com>):
#We have PC-NFS (FTP software)

It's gratifying for the name of one's product to be so completely
accepted that people start using it as a generic term, like kleenex or
xerox (sorry - I mean Kleenex and Xerox), but PC-NFS is actually a
registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. What you meant to say
was that you have FTP Software's "InterDrive" (or should that be
"Interdrive"?). The accepted "generic" name for NFS on DOS PC's is
"(PC)NFS", which is what the X/Open specification uses.

-- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM)   --
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