Subj : Re: Novell NetWare :)
To   : acn
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Jun 02 2021 08:41:00

-=> acn wrote to All <=-

 ac> I've found used NetWare packages at eBay and I've set up an ESXi server
 ac> on an old PC here and installed NetWare 3.12 :)

Oh, that rocks.

I started with Netware 2.2 on a Mac network running on Token Ring in 1991; 
probably the second weirdest install I'd worked on. It was an all IBM, all 
token ring shop, but the head of HR was a Mac user.

The first was Portable Netware, a port of the Novell file system and core 
protocols to UNIX. Netware ran as a UNIX app with a virtual file system 
sitting on top of UNIX running an Informix database. The database ran a 
document control system that the Windows clients used.

When the system crashed you'd need to fsck the bare-metal file system then 
run checks on the virtual system. Slow as molasses, too.

Novell 3.11 and 3.12 were a beautiful combination of simplicity and 
stability; I had some of those crazy 1-year uptimes you'd read about - but 
on more traditional hardware.




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