Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!hao!oddjob!mimsy!aplcen!osiris!mjr From: mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus Ranum) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: NFS availability Message-ID: <1288@osiris.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 08:31:21 EDT Article-I.D.: osiris.1288 Posted: Fri Jul 10 08:31:21 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 12:16:07 EDT References: <272@wapsyvax.OZ> <1721@umn-cs.UUCP> Organization: Johns Hopkins Hospital Lines: 34 Summary: unasked for plug (really PC-NFS) Xref: mnetor comp.dcom.lans:631 comp.sources.wanted:1581 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