From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 14 23:00:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA08425 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 23:00:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.188]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA08419 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 23:00:54 -0700 (PDT) From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu Received: from kongur (kongur.cs.ucdavis.edu) by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.6) id AA08918; Wed, 14 Aug 96 23:00:52 PDT Received: by kongur (SMI-8.6/UCDCS.SECLAB.Solaris2-2.0) id XAA05670; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 23:00:51 -0700 Message-Id: <199608150600.XAA05670@kongur> Subject: Re: "SCO Releases NC/OS" To: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD misc chating list) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 23:00:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at Aug 15, 96 01:20:50 am X-Pgp-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. .. snip .. > > The operating system also includes a TCP/IP stack for networking. I really like where they tout the fact that a "TCP/IP stack is included for networking". Duh! Would they make a "network computing OS" w/o the networking??? I'd say the marketroids had a lot of fun writing this press release. -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)