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In article <137@griffin.itc.gu.oz> greg@griffin.itc.gu.oz (Greg Watson) writes:
>Does anyone know of an implementation of NFS for the Mac under MacOS?
>I've heard a rumor that the University of Michigan has developed a
>version. Is this the case? If so, could someone please tell me how
>I can obtain a copy?

They've been working on it for over two years now; I don't know the status.

TOPS announced some time ago that TOPS would be "merged" with NFS, which
means throwing out the TOPS protocol and replacing it with the NFS protocol,
in real life.  When I left, they were still staggering toward that goal,
but the marketeers (the only people whose opinions really count) were having
some second thoughts.  Something about requiring an incompatible upgrade
that doubles the RAM overhead while providing no new features just didn't
seem like much of an end-user turn-on.  They may have changed plans again.

Finally, unconfirmed reports are the the Grasshopper Group plans to include
a Mac NFS with a future version of its MacNews software.
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Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
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