Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!sri-spam!rutgers!princeton!udel!rminnich From: rminnich@udel.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: NFS on the amiga, or, Amiga does this already Message-ID: <320@louie.udel.EDU> Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 10:16:03 EDT Article-I.D.: louie.320 Posted: Tue Jul 7 10:16:03 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jul-87 06:42:45 EDT References: <1521@botter.cs.vu.nl> <312@louie.udel.EDU> <1274@apple.UUCP> Reply-To: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 33 Keywords: NFS, multi-tasking envy, Macintosh Still talking about ethernet ... In article <1274@apple.UUCP> lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) writes: >Also, previous messages in this thread have implied that the Macintosh >cannot do this, which is totally false. There have been AppleTalk/Ethernet >gateways for a while, and there are several TCP/IP implementations for the >Mac. (We use these products here at Apple; I can log onto our VAXes and >Cray over AppleTalk.) I guess i was not clear enough. After all, we have an Appltalk/ether gateway here (home brew), and building it was impressively straightforward- which i guess says good things about appletalk. But Macs still do not do NFS yet, and may not for a while; this represents a competitive advantage for the amiga. And yes, i know TCP/IP for the MAC has been here for a while. Can i run ftp, telnet, rlogin, at the same time on the MAC? I have not seen that yet, because it does not multi-task. Someone here told me he would no run UW on the mac, as then it could not do anything else. On the Amiga, i can run UW and Dpaint side-by-side. I will soon be able to run dpaint and have output on a laser printer somewhere on our ethernet, all while reading mail on two or three vaxes. nice. I think the NFS world is going to explode, once people begin to realize just how nice it is. And given that NFS is a standard, i think a company that supports nfs, rather than Yet Another Private Standard, is going to come out ahead. I have no intention of buying Amiga Tex for $350; it makes a lot more sense to just go get the NFS card, since i do not have room for all the fonts i use (would need to get a hard disk too). Also, imagine 50 amigas all with Amiga Tex, and how much fun it would be to update all those programs. NFS eliminates this problem completely. ron -- Ron Minnich