dorner@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) (10/24/88)
In article <2463@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> mayer@hplabsz.UUCP (Niels Mayer) writes: > >the mailer has any particularly elaborate filing and searching >capabilities. If it does, I'd love to hear about 'em. Supposedly you can put your mail into a text indexing and retrieval system. >And what of voice mail. How does that work? Is voice data compressed, >uuencoded, and attached to the mail file sent across the networks? Yes. >I've heard rumours that there are some connections between the Andrew >project at CMU and NeXT. In particular, that NextStep is layered ontop >of something akin to the andrew toolkit. NextStep is not based on Andrew. For one thing, it uses NFS as its basic file-sharing mechanism. It IS based on the CMU operating system Mach. Being only passingly familiar with Andrew, I can't comment on whether or not they have duplicated Andrew features. -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: dorner@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner IfUMust: (217) 244-1765
guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) (10/27/88)
>>I've heard rumours that there are some connections between the Andrew >>project at CMU and NeXT. In particular, that NextStep is layered ontop >>of something akin to the andrew toolkit. > >NextStep is not based on Andrew. For one thing, it uses NFS as its basic >file-sharing mechanism. It IS based on the CMU operating system Mach. >Being only passingly familiar with Andrew, I can't comment on whether >or not they have duplicated Andrew features. He didn't say "Andrew", he said "the Andrew toolkit". Andrew includes a number of components, such as the Andrew file system, the Andrew window system server, and the Andrew window system toolkit. NeXTStEP, being more-or-less a window system toolkit (as opposed to an OS kernel or a file system), could well be based on the Andrew window system toolkit, even if the NeXT machine uses NFS rather than the Andrew file system.