Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!apollo!benoy From: benoy@apollo.uucp (Benoy Desouza) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Apollo's NFS !! Message-ID: <3c80c931.4653@apollo.uucp> Date: 6 Jun 88 19:23:00 GMT Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass. Lines: 29 (I'm speaking on a personal basis and not as a representative of Apollo) Is Apollo's NFS implementation a "true" NFS or not ? It certainly is ! To quote from a letter we received from Sun just before we released NFS. "This is to confirm that Sun Microsystems has tested the Apollo implementation of the Sun Network File System protocols, as agreed in our trademark license agreement. We found that the Apollo implementation performed comparably with other NFS implementations previously tested by Sun. Sun hereby approves shipment by Apollo of the tested implementation". Thus our NFS is in complete compliance with Sun's certification procedures. Hence Apollo's NFS is able to communicate with ALL other compliant NFSs. Our NFS has several advantages from its close ties to the Domain/OS operating system. For example: - users at foreign systems (wrt Apollo) can mount the Apollo network root directory (//) to gain access to file systems anywhere on a Domain network. - users at Apollo workstations can mount foreign file systems in the Apollo network root directory. This enables users throughout an Apollo network to use the same names when accessing those file systems. Thus one does not have to mount the foreign system on every node that wants to access it. Benoy De Souza Apollo Computers Inc.