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- From: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner)
- Subject: Re: Novell sucks!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.204231.1893@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
- Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.
- References: <TOMA.92Nov11160635@db.TC.Cornell.EDU> <1992Nov12.142348.12792@homebase.vistachrome.com> <JOE.92Nov12232040@oilean.islandsw.com>
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 20:42:31 GMT
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- joe@oilean.islandsw.com (Joe McGuckin) writes:
-
- >Hey I had a good chuckle this evening.
-
- >At a friends house I was perusing his latest BYTE magazine. The article about UnixLite
- >by Univel (USL & Novell) caught my eye. The author goes on at length about how Univel made UnixLite
- >'slimmer' and 'better' that traditional Unix's by eliminating many of the unneeded utilities
- >such as 'tar', 'cpio' and 'uucp' that just take up space on one's hard disk. Also, the standard
- >networking protocols are something I never heard of (they mentioned 3 - probably Novell networking
-
- Are you surprised? What is UNIXWare (not UNIXLite)? It is a Novell-ized
- version of USL's Destiny (SysVR4.2)! It is meant for connecting UNIX to
- Novell. It is not intended as a general purpose UNIX. Other Destiny
- ports are intended for that market.
-
- >stuff). If you want TCP/IP & NFS - well that costs extra. By the way, so do the compilers, device
- >driver writing 'kit' and GUI programming 'kit' (does this mean that linkable X windows libs aren't
- >part of the base system?).
-
- Many UNIX variants do not include TCP/IP (it is an extra cost option). NFS
- is an add-on for most versions. These days compilers are an extra cost
- feature (you seemed surprised by this; have you been keeping up with the
- Sun universe - the C compiler is now an extra cost option). Again, I am
- very surprised at your surprise. Look at any ad for a 386 UNIX variant.
- There are prices for a single user, developers (i.e., the C compiler and
- programming tools), multi-user, multi-user developer, etc.
-
- >-joe
-
- >--
-
- >Joe McGuckin joe@islandsw.com
- >Island Software oilean!joe@sgi.com
- >(415) 969-5453
-