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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
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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

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Ron Minnich