It is one of a series of white papers from SGI designed to address various UNIX and Windows NT interoperability topics.
Introduction Working within a network of identical computers is easy.
We can generally count on the information we need to be available where and when we need it. Further, because the applications that created that information run on the same system that we will use to examine and manipulate it, we can feel confident that we are interpreting that information as it was intended to be seen. Unfortunately, such homogeneous environments are rare. Many of the applications we use must work with data that was specified long before the application or the system that runs it was ever developed. Inc. All rights reserved.