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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 13 2012 @ 07:34 PM EDT |
<br>CONFIDENTIAL
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<br>Non-Responsive Material Redacted
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<br>From: John Ludwig
<br>To: Tina Brusca; John Ludwig
<br>Cc: Brad Silverberg; Mark Mccauley; Tom Fenwick
<br>Subject: RE: Novell and Windows 3.1 source
<br>Date: Tuesday, March 17, 1992 5:15PM
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<br>
<br>Obviously this is a dangerous thing, they would love to get more
inside
<br>info on windows and ms-dos.
<br>
<br>And I don't know how well this is going to work prior to MSDOS 7. We
have
<br>had unlimited access to the Windows kernel developers and source,
which
<br>has helped us immensely. Without this kind of access (which we cannot
<br>give), it will take Novell much longer to do this work. MSDOS 7 is
<br>the release
<br>in which we intend to clean up all the interfaces and make this kind
of
<br>thing doable by 3rd parties.
<br>
<br>That said, these are the things we could think about giving them:
<br><ul type=disc>
<br><li>The Win3.1 DDK is the most important thing. No secrets
<br>given away with this. This has all the info needed to
<br>write VXDs and has sample source.
<br></li>
<br><li>Spec of the MSDOS IFS interface for MSDOS 7. Unfortunately
this
<br>is still under design, we won't be able to deliver for some time
<br>yet. And this is a dangerous thing to give them, as it allows them
<br>to start cloning it. We need to wrap their access up in an NDA
<br>so that the DRDOS guys can't get this info.
<br></li>
<br><li>If they want to do this work prior to MSDOS 7 availability,
there
<br>isn't a whole lot to give them other than the DDK above. Sparta
<br>has no real IFS interface to plug into. They will need to hook the
<br>system the hard way just like we do.
<br></li></ul>
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8px">
<br>From: Jim Allchin
<br>To: John Ludwig
<br>Cc: Brad Silverberg; Jim Allchin
<br>Subject: Novell and Windows 3.1 source
<br>Date: Tueaday, March 17, 1992 03:29PM
<br>
<br>I Would like to get a concrete list from you of the modules and
<br>documentation
<br>that we could send to Novell if they were to do the redirector
<br>work (non protected
<br>and protected). This should be the code or examples that would help
<br>them do the work.
<br>
<br>Don't worry nothing will be given away - without additional
discussion.
<br>
<br>I need a list similar to the one that we gave them for NT.
<br>There we gave them
<br>a file system driver, some .h, and some random .c's that would help
them.
<br>We gave them lots of doc, some videos, and a design work book. The
<br>more concrete the better.
<br>
<br>This should be a valid list for them to do the work, but nothing more
-
<br>not source to modules that may give away Windows secrets.
<br>
<br>Unfortunately, I need this as soon as possible.
<br>
<br>I meet with billg tomorrow night and want to discuss this with him.
<br>
<br>thanks in advance.
<br>jim</div>
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