frank@dutinfd.UUCP (Frank de Bruin) (10/08/88)
First: If you see this message for the second time: accept my apologies. We do have some trouble with our news system and I really need the information, so I reposted this message on another host. Please send answers by E-mail to ..!mcvax!westc!fdbruin. Now for my problem: Studying all kinds of network environments (especially in heterogeneous computer networks), I encountered in "the ACM Proceedings of the Annual Conference 1977" some articles addressing a project called the National Software Works (NSW). This NSW was an effort to create a network operating system on top of existing operating systems. I'm very interested in the NSW approach of user-network interfacing, but I couldn't find any recent information. That's why I post the following questions on the net: - What is the status of the NSW? Is it finished, stopped or is there still any development going on? Are there implementations available? - Where can I get more (up-to-date) information/documentation? Any help is welcome. Please do reply by E-mail. Thanks in advance, Frank J. de Bruin West Consulting bv ..!mcvax!westc!fdbruin (or fdbruin@westc)
toner@drivax.UUCP (Steve Toner ) (10/14/88)
In article <1095@dutinfd.UUCP> frank@dutinfd.UUCP (Frank de Bruin) writes: > >- What is the status of the NSW? Is it finished, stopped or is there > still any development going on? Are there implementations available? > >- Where can I get more (up-to-date) information/documentation? > I worked on NSW for a couple of years when I worked at BBN. Unless it is in use in some secret installation somewhere, it has died, as it only ran on the old NCP and was never upgraded to run under TCP. When it did run, it ran great before about 8 AM Eastern time, but as people woke up and started using the network and the Works Manager host (at ISI as I recall), it slowed to a crawl. All the documentation I have is dated 1982. Here is a list of the doc that I have: NSW User Reference Manual, May 1982 A Technical Overview of the NSW Project, BBN Report 5238, Dec 1982 UNIX NSW Component Reference Manual, BBN Report 5029, July 1982 The BBN Reports may be available from BBN (Cambridge, MA). I'm pretty sure that at least some of the documentation is available from the gummint (NTIS???), as the work was done for RADC and ARPA and was unclassified... There is also a Springer-Verlag book that contains a brief section about NSW (including some parts that were never implemented...) /Steve Toner ...!amdahl!drivax!toner