Return to BSD News archive
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!mojo.eng.umd.edu!pandora.pix.com!stripes
From: stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne)
Subject: Re: [386BSD]
Message-ID: <Btr5F5.AJ9@pix.com>
Sender: news@pix.com (The News Subsystem)
Nntp-Posting-Host: pandora.pix.com
Organization: Project GLUE, Merriversity of Uniland, College Purgatory
References: <p5tullo@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 15:52:14 GMT
Lines: 16
In article <p5tullo@sgi.sgi.com> rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) writes:
[...]
>Although an excellent work, KA9Q's "NOS" is not needed in 386bsd, which
>already has full Berkeley networking built in. See the man pages for
>rlogin, rsh, rcp, ftp, telnet, socket, etc.
But I don't think 386BSD _currently_ has support for PPP, or AX.25 (and
there may be a few other things 386BSD doesn't have), also NOS seems to
lose way fewer charactors at high speeds. Hopefully we can fix all that,
but for the moment "NOS is not needed" isn't quite true...
--
stripes@pix.com "Security for Unix is like
Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The Multitasking for MS-DOS"
"The dyslexic porgramer" - Kevin Lockwood
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on
when it's necessary to compromise. - Larry Wall