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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!pv0220.vincent.iastate.edu!shad From: shad@iastate.edu (Hanse ShadowSpawn) Subject: Re: Porting NetBSD to OS/2 and Windows NT Message-ID: <shad.753337347@pv0220.vincent.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <crt.753111416@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <pcbsdCGE4oI.5zw@netcom.com> <2c22ac$fob@u.cc.utah.edu> <PCG.93Nov14215914@frontb.aber.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 04:22:27 GMT Lines: 30 In <PCG.93Nov14215914@frontb.aber.ac.uk> pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: >>>> On 13 Nov 1993 07:28:12 GMT, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth >>>> C) said: >Terry> In article <pcbsdCGE4oI.5zw@netcom.com> pcbsd@netcom.com (PCBSD >Terry> Development Manager) writes: >pcbsd> It is possible to consider an operating system a platform, which >pcbsd> is what I am doing. The PCBSD project is writing a xxxBSD kernel >pcbsd> that would run as a subsystem on OS/2 and NT, and provide all of >pcbsd> the Section 2 calls. [some stuff deleted] >Terry> Actually, hosted OS projects are quite common; several examples: >Terry> [ ... ] >Terry> o NetWare on OS/2 >Terry> o NetWare on UNIX (NetWare for UNIX -- NWU) [the rest deleted] 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 that it is overly relevant, but I read a couple months ago that Novell bought UNIX from AT&T and now owns all of the rights to AT&T's UNIX. They almost immediately released its unix network (gee, that took some work I bet ;) called UnixWare. -----------------------Marcus I. Ryan (shad@iastate.edu)--------------------- [insert a new and humorous quote here] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------