From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 14 23:09:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA09233 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 23:09:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quagmire.ki.net (root@quagmire.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA09225 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 23:09:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by quagmire.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with ESMTP id CAA04421; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 02:09:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA16476; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 02:09:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 02:08:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Brian Tao cc: FREEBSD-CHAT-L Subject: Re: "SCO Releases NC/OS" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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