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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
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Organization: The Bavarian Illuminati, Inc.
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Summary: typically IBM...
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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and then by the time it's finished, the hardware will be hopelessly out of
date, as usual.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