Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!aucs!paul
From: paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II & Multi User OS
Message-ID: <769@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 88 12:55:14 GMT
References: <3908@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele)
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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In article <3908@sigi.Colorado.EDU> sivagnan@handel.Colostate.Edu (S. Vasanthan) writes:
>
> We have a collection (20) of Mac II and are looking for
>a Multi-user Operating System for them. Currently we have
...
> Is there a Software out there which will let the users
>run the same appication at the same time and will also
>share and serve files for them?
>
> I was told that University of Warteloo have developed some
>software. Does any one know about this?

The University of WATERLOO has developed a network system called
MacJANET (Just Another NETwork).  It is based on their PC JANET
network and borrows many of the concepts from its predecessor.
However, it has been nicely MACified and is ideally suited to
a university/student environment.  MacJANET requires a dedicated
file server.  Actually, to be completely correct, the MacJANET
network uses a DISK server instead of a file server.  From the
user's point of view there is no apparent difference.  A disk server
might not be as good a a true file server, but ultimately it works
the same.

MacJANET allows multiple users to share the exact same copy of
a program as long as it is accessed in READ ONLY mode.  Only one
user may access a network disk in WRITE mode at a time.  The
developers of MacJANET have added some useful features for managing
a network in a hostile student environment .



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