Messages in this thread | | | From | "Bart Dorsey" <> | Subject | Re: Solaris sources | Date | Thu, 1 May 1997 15:48:24 -0500 |
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It's entirely possible Citrix got access to the WIndows NT kernel source..
The reason I think this is becuause supposedly NT 5.0 is supposed to be multi-user... and I bet I know how M$ is going to pull that off.. with Citrix's help --------------------------------------------------------------------- Bart Dorsey - bdorsey@bhs1.dsc.k12.ar.us Computer Support Tech - Bryant School District Linux, the choice of a GNU generation
"Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel, you never can tell." -- Doctor Who "Androids of Tara" --------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- From: The SethMeister <consp05@binghamton.edu> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Date: Thursday, May 01, 1997 3:57 AM Subject: Re: Solaris sources
>> >>I can't confirm this, but I remember reading or being told quite a while >>ago that Citrix had purchased an NT-source license. It was the basis >>for their product, which basically hacked at the NT kernel and made it >>multi-user over the network (as an application server). When you bought >>the Citrix product, as I recall, you got a "new" NT kernel that would >>let you connect up over the network and actually "log in" to NT from >>several desktops. > > That is correct; they have a product called NTrigue that allows you to run >NT in a distributed fashion, even usable over an X server. However, I >don't think the sources were free for them ;) > > -Se
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