Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 16:20:48 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: terry@lambert.org, swaits@pr.erau.edu, questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPX/Netware 4? Message-ID: <199509062320.QAA01087@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199509062116.GAA27612@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Sep 7, 95 06:46:39 am
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> > Or you could license NWU from Novell and port it. > > Is this the infamous "portable netware"? I'd heard that it was an extreme > crock, but you know how rumours are. Given the pricing you've listed, it > would be an _expensive_ extreme crock. I was personally involved in both the NWU and NUC implementations. I'll say that NUC was not a happy camper if you were using it on a multiuser machine as opposed to a single user desktop. I think you could fix this by expanding the in core credentials structure and integrating the directory services login into the UNIX login, but it would be special case. NUC is the same NetWare client software one uses on NeXT machines and UnixWare. The NWU implementation beat the Native NetWare on identical hardware up to 128 users. It started running out of processor at that point because of particulars of the STREAMS implementation that they would not let me correct and because of ODI driver latency that they forced on UnixWare. One of my fondest memories of my time at Novell is the look that was on Drew Major's face when we presented our performance graphs and explained that the higher line was our server when he commented about the performance being "not quite there yet". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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