Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!paco From: paco@oakhill.UUCP (Paco) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: NFS and Mac IIs Message-ID: <2282@devsys.oakhill.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 89 00:54:03 GMT References: <5458@b11.ingr.com> <2596@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> <1272@intercon.UUCP><8058@hoptoad.uucp> <1289@intercon.UUCP> <8100@hoptoad.uucp> <613@east.East.Sun.COM> Reply-To: paco@devsys.UUCP (Paco) Organization: Motorola, Austin, TX Lines: 35 In article <613@east.East.Sun.COM> geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold) writes: >In article <8100@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes: >>Lots of time and money have already been thrown at the problem by both >>Sun and Apple. So far nothing good has come out of it. I think that's >>a pretty clear indication for the future. > >Aha! "Post hoc ergo propter hoc." Did it occur to you that the >reasons might not be purely technical ones? > >Geoff Arnold, Internet: garnold@sun.com >Manager, PC-NFS Engineering UUCP: ....!sun!garnold >PCDS Group, Sun Microsystems Inc. Gee wilakers, Beave, if PC-NFS was so neet then why doesn't it work all that swell with recent versions of MS-DOS, PS/2 machines, compilers that require more than a couple Kbytes of resident memory... Even our MS-DOS people throw away the PC-NFS propaganda in disgust, which Sun keeps mailing out to the known cosmos. Might it be wise to get your own house working before injecting so much Sun dogma over here in MacLand? paco. ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- Macintosh Software Developer Motorola Microprocessor Products Group Austin, Texas email: cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!devsys!paco author-of: Menstat, Sedona, MacGroup... disclaimer: These are personal opinions, not Moto's, but hey who's using that wonderful Sparc chip after all?