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From: vp@nemesis.csi.forth.gr (Vassilis Prevelakis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Porting NetBSD to OS/2 and Windows NT
Date: 15 Nov 1993 23:22:51 +0200
Organization: Institute of Computer Science, FORTH Hellas
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References: <crt.753111416@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <pcbsdCGE4oI.5zw@netcom.com> 	<2c22ac$fob@u.cc.utah.edu> <PCG.93Nov14215914@frontb.aber.ac.uk> <shad.753337347@pv0220.vincent.iastate.edu>
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shad@iastate.edu (Hanse ShadowSpawn) writes:

>In <PCG.93Nov14215914@frontb.aber.ac.uk> pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:

>As far as NetWare on UNIX anymore, unless the company is only using one
>unix machine on their network or something like that, it's likely that
>they will now use UnixWare.

Not true.  the UnixWare implementation is missing a few bits for the time being.

Unix Review (May'93) had an article on UnixWare where they mentioned
that that "Univel only only implemented part of the necessary NetWare
Service Advertising Protocol SAP in UnixWare, so a real [sic] Novell
server is needed for its bindery. [...] The same incomplete SAP
implementation also makes it impossible for a DOS client to use the
SPX/IPX protocols to talk directly to a UnixWare machine.

I guess Univel wants people to go on buying Novell servers instead/as-well.


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