Subj : Re: Novell NetWare :)
To   : Spectre
From : N1uro
Date : Sat Jun 05 2021 08:28:00

Hey Spectre;

-=> Spectre wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

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

Years ago my first bbs was Renegade with 1 line and d'bridge for echomail. 
I eventually upgraded to 2 lines... mainly out of curiousity to see what its
chatroom features were like and such. The "big board" at the time was a TBBS
system with 12 lines, and he also had a MajorBBS with about 6 lines on it.
I loved TBBS but there were some great features coming out for MajorBBS 
including MajorFIDO which I became a team member of. 

MBBS had support for IPX/SPX but at the time I only had a NWLITE server and
client setup. They claimed that the protocol in NWLITE wasn't 100% compatible
with IPX/SPX and the link would not work. Since MBBS ran on a stand-alone pc
this was an issue to speak with it however after some config hacking I did
get it to work quite nicely. Eventually I got full Netware 3.x and installed
that. Ran that for years, even linked to my primary linux server quite nicely.
It made for a great file storage system. I wasn't too keen for the GUI they
incorporated in 4. I haven't run it since. They claimed that you could never
install a foreign key in it but that was false... or at least I figured out
that undocumented feature <G>

.... Old accountants never die, they just lose their balance.
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