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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
- From: shaman@cix.compulink.co.uk (Leo Smith)
- Subject: Re: PCNFS:what are the alternatives--SUMMARY
- Reply-To: shaman@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 10:21:00 +0000
- Message-ID: <memo.581810@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@gate.demon.co.uk
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- In article <888@marvin.jpl.oz> lm@marvin.jpl.oz (Luigi Martin) writes:
-
- As promised, here are the replys that I got:
- ....
- From: Leo Smith <shaman@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- ....
- Most polished product is PC/TCP from ftp software. Version 2.1 just
- released - so probably buggy, but it does feature unloadable stack,
- and last I heard they were working real hard to get the normal kernel
- (c.70-100k) shoehorned into expanded memory as well as high loaded.
- They do an NFS implementation but it isn't as good IMHO as Beame and
- Whiteside or PC-NFS. Remote print redirect is (for example) shit.
- ....
-
- Luigi: When I send a private E-mail expressing fairly frank and
- candid opinions about products with which I have had a long
- relationship, and since I also know personally many of the people
- involved in those products, I do no take kindly at having what was
- intended to be a helpful e-mail to you personally, splattered across
- the internet.
-
- PC/TCP up to 2.1 (and I haven't sampled that yet) used to suffer from
- large size, slow NFS due to small UDP size, and the print redirection
- wasn't up to much. Version 2.1 has been a long time coming, and has
- addressed these issues.
-
- It is a credit to James van Bokkelen that he has replied in such
- measured terms to what he might have interpreted as a product put
- down.
-
- I have already apologised to him.
-
-
- Leo
-