Dundas, Ontario-based Beame & Whiteside Software unveiled its BW-Server at the InterOp show earlier this month. A new Network File System server product, BW-Server, provides remote users access to local disk and printer resources under either Windows or MS-DOS. When implemented as a stand-alone MS-DOS application, BW-Server acts as a dedicated server, so that the workstation can be devoted exclusively to Network File System file and resource sharing. When implemented as a terminate-and-stay resident program, BW-Server operates as a Background Server so that the workstation can be used as an Network File System server and run other applications as well. Finally, BW-Server can be used as a Windows Server, so that when the software is run under Windows, the workstation can be used as a Network File System server while still performing other MS-DOS and Windows tasks. Beame & Whiteside Software also used the show to demonstrate a technology called BW-Services for Microsoft Corp’s forthcoming Windows NT, which adds the multitasking and multiuser capabilities of Beame & Whiteside’s BW-TCP and BW-NFS for MS-DOS and Windows to Windows NT. This means that a Windows NT workstation will be able to be converted into a multiuser and multitasking host. A shared socket interface provides the socket support not found in the Windows NT TCP/IP kernel, along with the network access required by Beame & Whiteside’s INETD Super Server. No prices were given for either new product.
