Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 02:08:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> Cc: FREEBSD-CHAT-L <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "SCO Releases NC/OS" Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.960815020545.16330A-100000@ki.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960815011751.17148N-100000@zap.io.org>
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On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Brian Tao wrote: > 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. > Sounds to me like what they've built is a distributed computing environment... something similar to what I understand Plan 9 already does? Then again...didn't someone on the list here do something whereby when you run an application, it distributes over X computers on the local network (similar to Crack can do?) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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" > Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org
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