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From: dennis@peanuts.nosc.mil (Dennis Cottel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: NLS servers
Message-ID: <838@nosc.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 8 Dec 88 20:12:01 GMT
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In article <4014e53a.1837d@apollo.COM> molson@apollo.com writes about
the NLS server being node locked, and how it can't be done otherwise...

Several places in this message, Ms. Olson refers to how unlikely it
is for a node to be down.  Nevertheless, it *will* happen -- and at an
extremely inconvenient time, no doubt.  You must design for the worst
case.

Apollo has the most advanced networking capabilites available.  They
have to be designing and building workable solutions to the new
problems that this technology brings.  Of course, I suppose a viable
company can't be marketing products that are still research issues,
but I've been disappointed that Apollo hasn't been more imaginative in
taking advantage of the network possibilities.

	Dennis Cottel  Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA  92152
	(619) 553-1645      dennis@nosc.MIL      sdcsvax!noscvax!dennis