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MT XINU Becomes Master Distributor Of ONC/NFS For Mach Operating System

SunFLASH Vol 13 #23 					 January 1990 
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WASHINGTON, D.C. --January 23, 1990-- At the Uniforum trade show being
held here, Sun Microsystems and Mt Xinu today announced the signing of
an agreement under which Mt Xinu will become a master distributor of
Sun's Open Network Computing/Network File System (ONC/NFS(TM))
networking standard for Carnegie Mellon University's Mach operating
system.  ONC/NFS will become a standard component of all commercial
versions of Mach to be distributed and supported by Mt Xinu, a leading
developer of UNIX(R) system software.

Mach is a multi-processing operating system developed by Carnegie
Mellon with support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Administration (DARPA).  Mach features an advanced, simplified kernel
design on which to build modern UNIX    facilities.  Mt Xinu is under
contract from CMU to develop and distribute the version called 2.6 MSD
("Mach Standard Distribution") for the Sun-3(TM), Digital VAX and IBM
RT PC workstations.  Versions for other systems will follow.

Mt Xinu will integrate ONC/NFS with the Andrew File System (AFS) and
offer a complete source code release to system manufacturers and
software developers.  The 2.6 MSD version will provide a full 4.3BSD
("Berkeley UNIX") interface and will be binary-compatible with most
4.3BSD applications.

Mt Xinu becomes one of Sun's select NFS master distributors, licensed
to distribute source code to companies who, in turn, may distribute
binaries to their customers.  Mt Xinu will distribute the full ONC
platform, including the RPC libraries and NFS.

ONC/NFS, part of Sun's SunNet(TM) family of networking products, is the
de facto standard for sharing computer files across disparate computer
systems.  The technology has been licensed by more than 290
organizations and system vendors.  In addition, ONC's Remote Procedure
Call (RPC) protocol is the basis of the Common Distributed Computing
Platform for the development of multi-vendor distributed computing
applications.  Unveiled in September 1989, this common platform will be
supported by Sun, Novell and Netwise and endorsed by 3Com, Banyan,
Lotus, Oracle, Informix, Ingres, Sybase and other software developers.

"Now Mach software developers and users will have access to the same
standard distributed computing environment and network file system
already available for most major operating systems worldwide," said
Bill Keating, Sun's director of technology marketing. "Software
developers who write to the RPC common platform will now be able to run
their distributed applications across Mach, UNIX System V.4, SunOS,
Digital's VMS and Ultrix, PC-DOS (through PC-NFS), Novell Netware,
IBM's MVS and VM for mainframes, and many other operating systems."

"Adding ONC/NFS to Mach will greatly speed the acceptance of Mach in
the development community," said Mt Xinu Sales Vice President Dick
Wrenn.  "NFS will help Mach fit into existing environments and will
provide the file-sharing technology and distributed applications
platform that has been so useful for regular UNIX applications.  Mt
Xinu was Sun's first NFS distributor (in 1985), so we've had over four
years to learn how to adapt NFS to new technologies as they emerge."

Berkeley, Calif.-based Mt Xinu, founded in 1982, specializes in the
development, marketing and support of leading-edge UNIX system software
for research, development and educational applications.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a
leading worldwide supplier of network-based distributed computing
systems, including professional workstations, servers and UNIX
operating system and productivity software.

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