Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!labc.dec.com!gray From: gray@labc.dec.com.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: NFS on the amiga, or, Amiga does this already Message-ID: <10796@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 00:06:57 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.10796 Posted: Thu Jul 9 00:06:57 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 16:22:13 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 52 Pehaps one of the individuals who have had the opportunity to use the Amiga NFS package from Ameristar could describe the implementation details specific to the Amiga. Specifically, it would be of interest to hear how the NFS remotely mounted filesystems are (1) managed and (2) accessed via the Amiga Workbench interface. Also, given that the current advertisments from Ameristar indicate that their product now runs in the Amiga 2000; what kind of support is already present in NFS for a M68020 CPU upgrade (into the 86-pin co-processor slot on the A2000 or the Turbo Amiga upgrade for the A1000.) What is the effective throughput of their Ethernet interface? In other words, how effective is the Amiga Workbench/NFS environment for performing high-level (user transparent) distributed processing? Note that a recent issue of Mac World (May, 1987 or June, 1987) indicated that Apple has announced it is licensing NFS from SUN for the MacIntosh II! If my memory serves me, I believe it is to run under AEX, the new Apple Unix System V.2 port for the Mac II. What I would like to see is an Icon interface to NFS (the AEX system is not icon-based) in a low-end workstation (