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Sure, yes. It ran on AT&T System V UNIX. https://wiki.restless.systems/wiki/Banyan_VINES_resurrection https://wiki.restless.systems/wiki/Banyan_VINES_resurrect
by lproven 2y ago
Sure, yes. It ran on AT&T System V UNIX.
https://wiki.restless.systems/wiki/Banyan_VINES_resurrection https://wiki.restless.systems/wiki/Banyan_VINES_resurrection
http://banyan-vines.bamertal.com/ http://banyan-vines.bamertal.com/
This has a history but it gets its facts wrong -- e.g. 7.0 wasn't the last version, it got to v8.5.
https://thehistoryofcomputing.net/banyan-vines-and-the-emerging-local-area-network https://thehistoryofcomputing.net/banyan-vines-and-the-emerg...
VINES's killer features were that the XNS network protocol allowed a network to be divided up into a network of networks, with routing between nodes. (You couldn't do that on the Microsoft/3Com NetBEUI protocol.) And it had an early network directory, called StreetTalk, with a three level address space:
user@group@organisation
Most rivals either had user@organisation as the only naming system -- including the Internet itself of course -- or you had to name the specific server:
alice@bob.charlie.com
That is what Novell NDS in Netware 4 was designed to replicate, in a more scalable fashion. Netware 4 was Novell's attempt to catch up with Banyan's StreeTalk.