LAN Manager for SVR4

Pete Holsberg pjh at mccc.edu
Thu Jun 20 04:57:49 AEST 1991


In article <1991Jun18.165757.5599 at netcom.COM> jbreeden at netcom.COM (John Breeden) writes:
=In article <1225 at lewis.OZ> steve at lewis.OZ (Steve Pattinson) writes:
=>
=>Can we  1 - Run AT&T's LAN manager on another brand of SVR4.0 ?
=>	    (I don't care if AT&T don't support it) 
=
=No. even if you could - why would you want to?

Because AT&T is so expensive!

=You would get NO SUPPORT
=from ANY vendor with such a "hybrid" system. You'd be setting yourself up
=(not to mention the bad rap the vendors would have when problems CAN'T
=be resolved on your "one-of-a-kind" system).

He won't get any support anyway unless he's running all that good
software on an AT&T computer!

=>	2 - Obtain LAN Manager for SVR4 Unix from other sources?
=>
=
=Yes, AT&T has licenced a few other companies, NCR (now an AT&T Company),
=Bull and Olivetti in Europe and of course Pyramid. You need to use the 
=ports of SYS5R4 from each of these vendors for there ports of SG/LMX.
=
=AT&T's SG/LMX is now the "offical" LMX port (joint AT&T/Microsoft announce-
=ment a few weeks ago). All current LMX vendors will be migrating to the
=AT&T base code - including HP (the "other" LMX). This will result
=in there being only one base LMX port - AT&T's.

Any timetable available?

Pete
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