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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Porting NQS to Sun4 architecture
Message-ID: <8519@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 17 Sep 88 21:06:19 GMT
References: <678@neptune.AMD.COM> <2257@cadovax.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <2257@cadovax.UUCP> mitchell@cadovax.UUCP (Mitchell Lerner) writes:
>Is NQS the same as BBN's MDQS (Multi Device Queueing System)?

First of all, MDQS was developed at BRL, not BBN.

Next, NQS started as modifications to MDQS at a national lab,
and was "borrowed" by outside contractors who conveniently
forgot that it wasn't theirs and now claim that it is.  I
don't know what's supposed to be "better" about NQS.

You can still get MDQS from BRL.  We use it all the time for
multi-queue, multi-device spooling on our campus-area network.
Anonymous FTP from Internet host VGR.BRL.MIL.