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From: mike@bambi.UUCP (Michael Caplinger)
Newsgroups: net.works
Subject: Re: ND on the VAX
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Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 10:46:45 EDT
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Reply-To: mike@bambi.UUCP (Michael Caplinger)
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Sorry, Keith, not quite true.  The Stanford V-system server only implements
block reading from a shared readonly file system.  It can't be used in
its current state to give a workstation a private read/write disk on a
VAX.

I'm pretty sure that somebody implemented the ND protocol, but required a
Sun source license because they wrote it by disassembling the Sun
source.  I still don't think it would be that hard to reverse-
engineer it from the nd(4) manual page and a dump of some Ether
transactions.

You can probably find out who did the source-restricted version by
mailing to sun-spots@rice.arpa.

	- Mike