Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mimsy!aplcen!osiris!mjr From: mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus Ranum) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: NFS availability on IBM/RT Message-ID: <1320@osiris.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 08:53:42 EDT Article-I.D.: osiris.1320 Posted: Tue Jul 21 08:53:42 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 07:21:09 EDT References: <23293@sun.uucp> <336@rabbit1.UUCP> Organization: The Bavarian Illuminati, Inc. Lines: 30 Summary: typically IBM... Xref: mnetor comp.dcom.lans:672 comp.sources.wanted:1668 In article <336@rabbit1.UUCP>, dml@rabbit1.UUCP (David Langdon) writes: }>The IBM sales rep tells us that Brown has such a thing, but that something }>called an NFS Source License is required to obtain this. The Sun sales }>rep says this would cost $1K per node which sounds too expensive. Moreover, }>the Brown Univ. code only works on the old version of the RT. I would like }>to hear from anyone who might have experience going this route. } }Not sure about this stuff, but under the commercial UN*X implementation }(i.e. AIX), IBM has another product called distributed services which provides }some minimal NFS-like support. This product allows you, via an Ethernet/PC-Net }link between machines, to mount file systems resident on other machines. For }more info you are probably better off calling your IBM rep. If you are using }the ACIS UN*X, don't know. Typically, IBM has produced a machine that costs as much as a more "mainstream" machine (like a Sun), has none of it's advantages (Like NFS, or a consistent port of UN*X), and only talks to other IBMs. No doubt, if you throw enough money at the problem (IBM likes that) you can get ALMOST the functionality of a Sun II :-). Of course, the other route is to bust your a** and write the software yourself, like Brown did, and then by the time it's finished, the hardware will be hopelessly out of date, as usual. --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