"Jesper Monsted" wrote in message
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"Michael" wrote in
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"Mark Smith" wrote in message
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Hello Michael,

No it's not Linux *spit* ;-) More likely a derivative of a RTOS like
vxWorks or something (I did know what was used once, but my brain
only holds so much information and old stuff drops out over time :-)

Wrong. FabricOS 1.x, 2.x and 3.x are based on vxworks, but the 4.x series
(for the silkworm 12k and 3900's) is a realtime linux. It works really
well, too.

Thanks, Jesper. I'm glad I wasn't just seeing things.

Darn.... If it were some sort of *nix derivative, then you could do
all sorts of umm....creative stuff with it. ;-)

No. Although there is a root account that gives you a real shell, it is
not
available to regular users and if you change anything with it, you forfeit
the right to support.

Don't get any funny ideas

Hmm....that's unfortunate. The Java GUI and web interface that's used to
maintain the SAN leaves a lot to be desired. I had dreams of performing
batch updates etc. via command line scripts, but it looks like those dreams
have been nipped early. ;-)


Michael