G4 cube (was Re: 68K Macs with MacOS 7.5 still in production use...)

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 09:51:04 CDT 2016


On 14 September 2016 at 15:59, Tor Arntsen <kspt.tor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 September 2016 at 15:50, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> To this day, I have never once used any form of NFS or ever seen it in use.
>
> A typo, I presume? NFS, as in Network File System?
>
> Used, for example, everywhere where Sun boxes were installed, for our
> (European) company that would be from around 1989 and onwards (and we
> were a bit late with Sun), and it's going strong, although (almost)
> without Sun boxes. And common with NAS, of course.


No typo. As far as I know, working in tech since 1988, I have never
ever seen it used.

All Unix types assume that it is very common. In mixed environments --
which means more or less every one I've ever worked in -- it isn't.

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