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Subject: Re:  Need information on NFS
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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.
	
Sorry, The department of Computer Science at RPI's initial version of
SUN RPC's (which included UDP/IP and a device driver) all fit in less
than 64k.  Besides its seems pretty hard to buy a machine with less
than 512k these days (except maybe a CoCo).

Martin Schoffstall