Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 01:20:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> To: FREEBSD-CHAT-L <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: "SCO Releases NC/OS" Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960815011751.17148N-100000@zap.io.org>
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Pardon me, but just what is a "network computing operating
system"? An OS that inherently supports some sort of networking
protocol. Maybe I'm missing the meaning of "network computer". To
me, that means a computer that can communication with other computers
over a network.
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SCO Releases NC/OS
The Santa Cruz Operation has made a network computer operating system
built on a Unix and Intel platform available to OEMs.
SCO claims its NC/OS is the first network computing operating system
to run on Intel chips. Other solutions in the works or already
released rely on less-widespread processors such as those from
Advanced Research Machines, a fact that SCO says makes its OS the
first volume platform for the network computer.
While other NC operating systems to hit market have been built on
specially proprietary platforms--if, indeed, an Internet operating
system can be considered proprietary--SCO's NC/OS builds on a
stripped-down version of its flagship OpenServer operating system.
Customers can use a proven operating system instead of a completely
new technology.
A SCO spokesman said building on the 1.5-Mbyte Unix operating system
will give access to Unix applications as well as to the Java applets
that can be run with the operating system's Netscape Navigator client.
The operating system also includes a TCP/IP stack for networking.
A SCO spokesperson said the company has "half a dozen"hardware vendors
evaluating the operating system, and those that license it will begin
building NCs based on NC/OS in September.
--Jeff Sweat
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net)
Senior Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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