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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: POSIX threatens our use of lp/lpr and friends
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In article <1993Jan22.172426.29654@leland.Stanford.EDU> dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes:
>
>>So what *is* its concept and user interface? The debate about
>>palladium seems a bit weak as (except one person) nobody in this group
>>(comp.unix.bsd) seems to know how palladium really looks like and how
>>it works.
I've implemented parts of a Palladium style system on VMS and Ultrix and
argued for it's inclusion in a PC networking system. It has been a
useful reference for me.
If you want, I can post about it, but all relevant information is available
from one of:
aeneas.mit.edu /pub/palladium/
aeneas.mit.edu /pub/palladium2/
athene.uni-paderborn.de /uninstalled/athena/palladium/
clouso.crim.ca /pub/Athena/palladium/
ftp.uni-kl.de /pub1/unix/athena/palladium.tar.Z
ftp.uni-kl.de /pub1/unix/athena/palladium2.tar
ftp.uni-kl.de /pub2/athena/palladium.tar.Z
ftp.uu.net /networking/athena/palladium/
ftp.uu.net /networking/athena/palladium2/
gatekeeper.dec.com /.3/net/info/ietf/print-wg/DEC-palladium-overview.ps
iskut.ucs.ubc.ca /pub/athena/palladium2/
lth.se /pub/athena/palladium/
lth.se /pub/athena/palladium2/
mcsun.eu.net /network/athena/palladium/
milton.u.washington.edu /public/surge/palladium/
milton.u.washington.edu /public/surge/palladium/palladium.c
milton.u.washington.edu /public/surge/palladium/palladium.h
minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de /pub0/pub/DEC/DEC-palladium-overview.ps
minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de /pub0/pub/athena/palladium.tar.Z
nic.funet.fi /pub/doc/athena/palladium/
relay.iunet.it /disk0/network/athena/palladium-mit_bl62.tar.Z
reseq.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de
/informatik.public/comp/networking/communication/athena/palladium/
src.doc.ic.ac.uk /packages/athena/palladium/
src.doc.ic.ac.uk /packages/athena/palladium2/
unix.hensa.ac.uk /pub/uunet/networking/athena/palladium/
unix.hensa.ac.uk /pub/uunet/networking/athena/palladium2/
walhalla.germany.eu.net /pub/network/athena/palladium/
walhalla.germany.eu.net /pub/network/athena/palladium2/
>And that's the problem I have with it. I had never heard of
>Palladium until the first posting of this thread. The generally
>very knowledgeable readership of comp.unix.bsd didn't know
>much about it. Why is anyone considering putting something
>none of us knows about into a standard?
One might ask this question of archie as well... ;-). Actually, I have
found it difficult to keep on the cutting edge of more that 30 or 40
things at the same time... so I expect others have the same problem. 8^).
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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