Subj : Re: Novell NetWare :)
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Spectre
Date : Sat Jun 05 2021 12:36:00

 pF> Trying to keep 3 different ethernet types, an IPX netware network,
 pF> Appletalk  running on ethernet_snap, and integrating ethernet_II
 pF> frames and adding IP

I got as far as trying to run NWLITE over IP :)  It was pretty nasty though, ¨most of the high level drivers with a shim for loading over a crynwyr driver. ¨The best I could manage was clients able to see each other, but not actually ¨talk to each other. Kind of frustrating.

Also used Artisoft's The Network Eye back then too... great for working on ¨headless clients. Just bang in the netbios name and have the remote screen ¨display right in front of you.  Had a raft of weird clients, all 286s, some ¨with just a floppy drive, others with shared and subst drives all over the ¨place.  Looking back it was eye wateringly complicated if you were looking at ¨it from outside.

I also couldn't get NWLITE to play nice with things like desqview either. It ¨tended to eat to much low memory and lose connectivity between different ¨tasks.

Spec


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