Subject: RE: IEEE 802.3
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Gregg C Levine <hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/28/2000 22:00:22
Hello from Gregg C Levine writing for myself

Oh!? What about the NOS from Phil Karn, KA9Q. It was originally written for
the ham enviroment, since he is one. But it was written to do almost
everything, on DOS. Don't knock it, unless you've tried it.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-net-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:tech-net-owner@netbsd.org]On
> Behalf Of der Mouse
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 1:36 PM
> To: jenny xie
> Cc: tech-net@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: IEEE 802.3
>
>
> > 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.
>
> Practically any OS these days is networkable, and most of them are
> capable of using 802.3 or some slight variant thereof; the question is
> unanswerable without knowing what qualifies as a Network Operating
> System (as far as I can tell, the term is little but a buzzword).
>
> 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.
>
> 					der Mouse
>
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