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Storage History: The 3Server

Started by sfoskett · 7 months ago

Being a history buff stuck in the storage industry, I’ve long had an interest in how we got where we are. So much of the storage industry is rooted in legacy, and we can learn much by knowing why things turned out the way they did.
I’d like to kick off a series of arti ... Continue reading »

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  • tsa

    2 years ago

    Just for completeness, the third major player of that era was Banyan, with Banyan VINES. While I worked there, we moved VINES from a proprietary hardware platform to generic 386 servers and ultimately implemented it as services on top of SCO Unix. If you're going to cover this in a future segment, great. If not, readers can look up "Banyan" on wikipedia.org for a reasonably accurate summary.
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  • sfoskett

    2 years ago

    How could I, a Mass-hole myself, forget to mention Banyan? It was the first NOS I was exposed to when I was an undergrad at WPI! Thanks for pointing this out! I meant to be focusing on the 3Server, but Banyan deserved at least a shout-out!
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