Re: [TUHS] Banyan Vines? Banyan/ePresence dissolves self - TUHS

5 Feb 2008

My recollection from those days was that Banyan Vines was developed in
collaboration with DEC.  I think it would have been more likely that it was
BSD or (eek) ULTRIX based.  I was working on system and network management
at AT&T USO/USL/Novell/HP until 1997 and never heard it mentioned that
Banyan Vines was on any sort of System V license though we were all quite
aware of the product.  I think I would have heard something if they were
³one of ours.²  Given the timeframe it would more likely have been some sort
of 7th edition license, but in those days BSD would have been the more
logical choice.  This is just my recollection, however.  I¹ll see what I can
track down in terms of facts.

Very truly yours,
- janet
Janet Frazer Sala

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 Wesley Parish wrote:

  Who would
one need to get in touch with, to ask about the possibility of
getting the various obsolete Banyan Vines bits and pieces donated to TUHS?
(It was based on a Unix kernel, so I would say it - one of the first NOSes  to 
 >have a directory - should be part of the TUHS repository.)
 >  
 >  Wasn't it based on System V? Wouldn't that prevent it from being
 released? (unless they made a similar deal with AT&T to the one Sun
 made, which is very unlikely) 