At 1:35 PM -0400 7/28/00, der Mouse wrote:
> > I have a question about IEEE 802.3.  What three Network Operating
> > Systems (NOSs) can be used in an IEEE 802.3 environment?
>
>This sounds like an exam question.  Suspiciously like one, I'd say,
>though late July is not what I normally think of as exam season.
>
>There most certainly are more than three network-capable operating
>systems.  Even if you use very broad categories, like lumping all UNIX
>variants together, I can name five widely different classes: Windows,
>MacOS, UNIX, VMS, DOS (though DOS is arguable, since AFAIK no DOS
>variant is networkable out of the box).  There are doubtless others
>that don't come readily to my mind.

VxWorks and probably most other commercial RTOS's.  Does Plan 9 and 
experimental systems qualify as another category.

Why am I helping with an exam question?  Because it sounds like the 
exam writer is clueless and deserves to be reminded of the fact.


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