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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Software Maintenance for the UNIX Operating System
Message-ID: <6042@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 12 Dec 88 04:17:00 GMT
References: <21896@apple.Apple.COM> <293@pitstop.UUCP>
Organization: Grasshopper Group in San Francisco
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Sun sells a product called "NSE" which was designed to solve this kind
of "programming in the large" problem.  I think the SunOS 4.0 release
was not built with it (not quite ready/stable yet) but the upcoming
4.1 is being built with it (though I could be wrong).

I thought I remembered a Usenix paper about it, but I've looked through
1986-88 and didn't find it.  Can someone from Sun who knows about this
post a summary of it?  My impression was that it was a neat system that
has never received the emphasis or publicity that it deserves.
-- 
John Gilmore    {sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid,amdahl}!hoptoad!gnu    gnu@toad.com
		"The network *is* the confuser."