Talk:Banyan VINES

Multi-Processor Support

The following quote from the article is incorrect:

By the late 1990s this performance edge became irrelevant and then disappeared, as VINES could use a maximum of only 96 MB of RAM and a single processor due to its aging SVR3 underpinnings, preventing it from taking advantage of newer hardware.

I worked for a Banyan reseller between 1990 and 1999, and it definitely did support more than one processor, as we had several customers running SMP based SystemPros and similar certified machines. There was a problem at one time specific to SMP machines and Banyan's serial card driver which caused a fax gateway we sold to fail to work on such a platform.

I think the 96MB limit too is incorrect.

Banyan's own CNS servers were single processor and indeed limited to 96MB of RAM. Each server could take up to 3 memory boards, with each one having a capacity of up to 32MB. I never saw one of these servers running more than 32MB in the field, as memory for these was extremely expensive. These ceased being sold around 1991 or so. --84.69.74.120 14:22, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Timeframe needed

This article needs timeframes when the technology was introduced. When? 1990? 1970? 1853? -Rolypolyman 16:03, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Banyan VINES in the Military

Banyan VINES was THE system used until Windows NT migration in the late 90's early 2000 by the United States Department of Defense. I think this should be mentioned in the article, it was an extreme close tie to the company. When the DoD stopped using Banyan Vines version 8.5 (the last version) is what made the company fold the Network Operating System (NOS). 70.125.43.99 14:01, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

LAN Manager? What about OS/2?

I think the MS/IBM story jumped a tooth in here somewhere. As I recall, LAN Manager was just an MS product but that MS and IBM partnered together and, using some ex-DEC folks who had worked on VMS and its clustering model (which is why NT clustering and VMS clustering used some of the same terminology), jointly developed a DOS-less kernel-based OS with a windowed GUI console much as Apple and the Amiga had (although, AmigaDOS was further out into multitasking-land than anything MS or Apple had for consumer PCs of any CPU up until the Windows NT era). But while that was going on, MS and IBM parted ways on the project and as a result IBM produced OS/2 from that work and similarly MS produced Windows NT. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.157.54.144 (talk) 01:23, 4 March 2016 (UTC)