Subj : Re: Novell NetWare :)
To   : Spectre
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Jun 03 2021 07:29:00

-=> Spectre wrote to acn <=-

 Sp> I never ended up near netware. But the BBS had NetwareLite peer to peer
 Sp> on ¨10Mb coax when I first got hold of network cards. IPX networking
 Sp> lasted until ¨the BBS closed up.

I remember wanting to play with Netware Lite and Novell DOS, but I had a 
DOS BBS, an OS/2 desktop, and LANTastic working at the time.

 Sp> By the time 95 rolled around everything was pretty much running IP4.

I worked at a company that specialized in making screen savers with flying 
toasters on them at the time. They were about 80/20 Mac and DOS/Windows, and 
we used Netware 3.12 servers with Services for Mac, and later added IP to 
the mix.

Trying to keep 3 different ethernet types, an IPX netware network, Appletalk 
running on ethernet_snap, and integrating ethernet_II frames and adding IP 
to the mix was a pain in the ass... I'm surprised it all worked.

At least it was all UTP by then and not coax.

It all worked until the Chicago builds (Windows95 beta) came out, and they 
had optional netware file sharing protocols. If you didn't know the 8 
digit hexadecimal number (mine was DEADBEEF) and left it at the default of 
all 1s, the existing network would die.

The engineer who turned out to be the culprit blamed Microsoft for not being 
more careful. I had to remind him he was on a production network and it was 
a beta.

In retrospect, I'm sure some developer must have gotten a secret award for 
coming up with another way to screw Novell.

Luckily that feature didn't make it into the release version.




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