Excelan EXOS 8000S ?

From: Dave Woodman - dave_at_naffnet.org.uk <dave_at_naffnet.org.uk)>
Date: Sat Oct 5 03:33:01 2002

"Fred N. van Kempen" wrote:

>
> Excelan
> EXOS 8000-0101S
> TCP/IP NETWORK SOFTWARE SOURCE PRODUCT
> FOR OEM DEVELOPMENT
> PN: 4408000-0101S REL: 3.3Zv7
>
> It has three more labels, all of which warn about it's contents being
> proprietary, confidential, yadda yadda. The usual :)
>
> Question: what is this? Does anyone know, or remember, what the EXOS
> 8000S was? The contents (2.3MB or so) look like a UNIX dist of some
> kind, with UNIX shell scripts for installation... the rest is probably
> a compressed file with the sources.

This is the source code fir the VMS networking product that they used to
keep -
development was on UNIX with RCS being used for version control, and all
of the
code was released into the public domain when the product was
discontinued after
the company was acquired - by whom I cannot remember.

I used to have a copy of the sources, ftp'd long ago from the company ftp
site, but
they went via the head-crash route. When I went to get them again, they
were
unfindable.

At the time, I could not get the sources to compile with the
GNU C compiler
(version 1.something) and I could not justify the cost of the
VAX C compiler,
just to see if it would compile them - I have no idea whether EXOS moved
the
sources to a VAX to compile them or cross-compiled on UNIX.

    Cheers,

        Dave.
Received on Sat Oct 05 2002 - 03:33:01 BST