Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!sun!gorodish!guy From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Integrating Apollo into Sun NFS Message-ID: <55047@sun.uucp> Date: 1 Jun 88 21:37:20 GMT References: <21859@labrea.STANFORD.EDU> <1955@ssc-vax.UUCP> <5588@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 6 > Because they don't write it from scratch; instead, they plug Sun's > code into their (BSD4.2-derived) kernel. Or plug Lachman's code into their S5-derived kernel. The basic point still stands, however; it's easier to drop existing NFS server code into a UNIX-derived system than it is to write a server from scratch.