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From: bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Need information on NFS
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Date: Sat, 20-Dec-86 11:38:28 EST
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>I really question whether RPC can be considered OS independent.  It is way
>too big for microcomputers.  An acquaintance involved with NFS (who has
>never worked for Sun) gave me an estimate recently that a client side alone
>would take 100K of machine code on a Mac.

Two years ago most higher level languages other than BASIC were too
big for micros. I think this problem will vanish shortly by itself.
100K? that doesn't sound very big. A $1K Atari/St has 1MB of memory.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University