Comments on: Storage History: The 3Server http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/06/25/storage-history-the-3server/ Understanding the accumulation of data Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:58:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: DeepStorage http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/06/25/storage-history-the-3server/comment-page-1/#comment-14716 DeepStorage Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:35:36 +0000 http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/06/25/storage-history-the-3server/#comment-14716 Actually the 3Server with 3+Share wasn't a file server but what we would now call a SAN array. Workstations sent head, disk, sector (SCSI was new then so LBA not a standard) requests. Volumes were R/W for a single user or R/O for all. Shared R/W required applications to support APIs for access.<br><br>That's why Novell killed them. File services much better idea for user workstations.<br><br>3+Open used SMB and was a file server.<br><br>SMB first appeared in IBM LAN Program/DOS 3.1 and MS OEMed it as MS-Net. DOS was just too limited as a server OS so they partnered with 3Com to add networking to OS/2 in LAN Manager. 3Com got hosed on the deal by the way. Actually the 3Server with 3+Share wasn't a file server but what we would now call a SAN array. Workstations sent head, disk, sector (SCSI was new then so LBA not a standard) requests. Volumes were R/W for a single user or R/O for all. Shared R/W required applications to support APIs for access.

That's why Novell killed them. File services much better idea for user workstations.

3+Open used SMB and was a file server.

SMB first appeared in IBM LAN Program/DOS 3.1 and MS OEMed it as MS-Net. DOS was just too limited as a server OS so they partnered with 3Com to add networking to OS/2 in LAN Manager. 3Com got hosed on the deal by the way.

]]> By: Stephen http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/06/25/storage-history-the-3server/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Stephen Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:44:32 +0000 http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/06/25/storage-history-the-3server/#comment-4 How could I, a Mass-hole myself, forget to mention Banyan? It was the first NOS I was exposed to when I was an undergrad at WPI! Thanks for pointing this out! I meant to be focusing on the 3Server, but Banyan deserved at least a shout-out! How could I, a Mass-hole myself, forget to mention Banyan? It was the first NOS I was exposed to when I was an undergrad at WPI! Thanks for pointing this out! I meant to be focusing on the 3Server, but Banyan deserved at least a shout-out!

]]> By: sfoskett http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/06/25/storage-history-the-3server/comment-page-1/#comment-14880 sfoskett Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:44:00 +0000 http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/06/25/storage-history-the-3server/#comment-14880 How could I, a Mass-hole myself, forget to mention Banyan? It was the first NOS I was exposed to when I was an undergrad at WPI! Thanks for pointing this out! I meant to be focusing on the 3Server, but Banyan deserved at least a shout-out! How could I, a Mass-hole myself, forget to mention Banyan? It was the first NOS I was exposed to when I was an undergrad at WPI! Thanks for pointing this out! I meant to be focusing on the 3Server, but Banyan deserved at least a shout-out!

]]> By: tsa http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/06/25/storage-history-the-3server/comment-page-1/#comment-3 tsa Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:39:03 +0000 http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/06/25/storage-history-the-3server/#comment-3 Just for completeness, the third major player of that era was Banyan, with Banyan VINES. While I worked there, we moved VINES from a proprietary hardware platform to generic 386 servers and ultimately implemented it as services on top of SCO Unix. If you're going to cover this in a future segment, great. If not, readers can look up "Banyan" on wikipedia.org for a reasonably accurate summary. Just for completeness, the third major player of that era was Banyan, with Banyan VINES. While I worked there, we moved VINES from a proprietary hardware platform to generic 386 servers and ultimately implemented it as services on top of SCO Unix. If you’re going to cover this in a future segment, great. If not, readers can look up “Banyan” on wikipedia.org for a reasonably accurate summary.

]]> By: tsa http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/06/25/storage-history-the-3server/comment-page-1/#comment-14879 tsa Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:39:00 +0000 http://blog.fosketts.net/2007/06/25/storage-history-the-3server/#comment-14879 Just for completeness, the third major player of that era was Banyan, with Banyan VINES. While I worked there, we moved VINES from a proprietary hardware platform to generic 386 servers and ultimately implemented it as services on top of SCO Unix. If you're going to cover this in a future segment, great. If not, readers can look up "Banyan" on wikipedia.org for a reasonably accurate summary. Just for completeness, the third major player of that era was Banyan, with Banyan VINES. While I worked there, we moved VINES from a proprietary hardware platform to generic 386 servers and ultimately implemented it as services on top of SCO Unix. If you’re going to cover this in a future segment, great. If not, readers can look up “Banyan” on wikipedia.org for a reasonably accurate summary.

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