[HN Gopher] When the Power Macintosh Ran NetWare (Featuring Worm...
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When the Power Macintosh Ran NetWare (Featuring Wormhole and
Cyberpunk)
Author : todsacerdoti
Score : 79 points
Date : 2023-12-24 03:26 UTC (19 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
| jakedata wrote:
| This was all happening at the start of my career in computer
| stuff. I say computer stuff because it was a jumble of all the
| different things one needed to do in an early startup
| environment.
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| It was really exciting not knowing which way things would end up
| going, I was working on 68k, PowerPC Macs along with x86 Windows
| 3.1 and NT 3.1 (installed from 5 1/4 floppies!) and super early
| Linux.
|
| We truly didn't know if Apple was going to survive the Gilbert
| Amelio era and decided to port everything to Windows. We never
| even tried to support Netware and it remains a somewhat shameful
| gap in my skillset.
|
| In my basement at W'land dead computers wait dreaming, yet they
| shall rise and my kingdom shall cover the Workbench.
| 65a wrote:
| Super early linux (and MacBSD) on Macs in that era was pretty
| interesting. Usually there was an Mac application you would
| run, the computer would snow crash, and suddenly dmesg would
| start over-writing the screen. I have no idea how that worked,
| exactly, I assume it was effectively overwriting the running
| operating system in memory and then just jumping to the kernel.
| It wasn't until the PowerPC era that things got easier with
| OpenFirmware.
| classichasclass wrote:
| (author) Pretty much that, since Mac OS didn't have much
| concept of memory protection. MkLinux on NuBus Power Macs had
| to do the same thing, and even current NetBSD/mac68k still
| does. The PDMLoader in this article works on the same notion
| as well.
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