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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Now that 2.1 is out. What next?
Date: 12 Dec 1995 07:00:25 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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ceharris@mal.com (Carl Harris) wrote:
] I'm not suggesting that anyone will reverse-engineer the undisclosed
] NetWare code. I'm thinking that Novell might be convinced to make a
] port of their NetWare server package for Solaris to FreeBSD (and other
] "free" U*ix systems), given that the FreeBSD userbase is growing steadily,
] many people have a great aversion to WinNT, and FreeBSD already has kernel
] support for IPX.
To make all of you happy:
Both BSD and Linux were examined as reference platforms for
the NWU 4.x product, since it would allow Novell to give
away source code to various kernel pieces without having to
license them.
SVR4 (Dell SVR4, as a matter of fact) was chosen because of the
Streams support. This was later rolled over to UnixWare (which
Dell UNIX had beat on several counts, from an engineering
standpoint) when Novell bought USL. It was the politically
correct thing to do.
I actually did a Streams implementation for BSD in early 1993,
which I wasn't able to distribute because after the USL purchase
in June of 93, since USL thought BSD was a "competing product".
The NWU 4.x code relies heavily on a Streams MUX for its packet
scheduling (it uses a "work to do" model, just like Native
NetWare).
Other than Streams support, a BSD port would be fairly easy,
though validation would still cost a lot of time.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.