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From: mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: NFS availability
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Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 08:31:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 10 08:31:21 1987
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	At my last job I set up several PCs to talk to Suns using
PC-NFS. My overall impression was VERY good. It's fast and easy
to install (if you have any basic knowledge of UNIX) (and RTFM).
The actual functioning of the software is excellent, too.

	It was very nice to be able to know that our engineer's
designs were getting dumped to a tape every night along with the
rest of the Sun's files. No more messing with braindead DOS backup
programs. They also has access to our "real" printers, through
the net.
	
	Theoretically, you could actually get by quite well using
a hard-diskless PC as a station. Yes, you can run binaries off of
the Sun's disk. We had a large CAD package that took a lot of
bumping and grinding from the PCs hard drive in order to load.
Copying it to the Suns an running it over the ethernet gave a real
boost in speed, as well as making various libraries globally 
accessible. It's a perfect solution for a lot of distributed PC
applications. 

	You can save a lot of buckage and time with this package.
Seeing as you can get away without a hard disk (or just a cheap
little one) and a printer, the thing almost pays for itself.

	DISCLAIMER: it worked great for me. I don't work for Sun.
I'm just a happy and impressed customer.

--mjr();
-- 
If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical,
go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I get as crude as possible. These
days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire
to crudeness...			         -Johnny Mnemonic