[SunRescue] Tape drive

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Sun, 20 May 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > When I think about what's ideal in an OS, I think in terms of end user
> > OSs.  For servers, it really doesn't matter that much as Novell (didn't
> > they run on DOS?) and Oracle (they use raw disks instead of a file system)
> 
>   Novell was/is it's own operating system...an interesting but
> somewhat nasty one at that. ;)

Now, the one Novel system I ever used, I know that I saw the thing booting
into DOS before it went into Novell.  Maybe it was just doing something
like loadlin (which is a dos program that boots linux), but I got the
distinct impression that Novell was running as a 32bit dos program.  

Of course, the question is, what makes a file system?  Many 32bit dos
programs where that much different from using loadlin (meaning that the
program didn't make DOS calls and tried to avoid bios calls).  Likewise,
Windows in 32bit mode did a lot of OS like things (don't know if it
provided a file system, but it did process management, among other
things).

But, I digress...
 
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Joshua Boyd