Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 11:06:41 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> Cc: FREEBSD-CHAT-L <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "SCO Releases NC/OS" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960815110453.28270C-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960815011751.17148N-100000@zap.io.org>
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Reading the text it seems to me that it is some kind of stripped down thingie menat especially (and maybe only) for running Web browsers and the like (support for java) and maybe also Web servers (built in in the kernel?) Who knows. It isn't clear from this text. Sander 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. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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" > >
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