I had subscriptions to MacUser and Macworld and Macweek during the 1990s and somehow missed that PowerMacs could, for a moment in time, run Novell Netware server software.
1990s tech experimentation was wild.
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#retrocomputing #macintosh #novell #netware
Un día como hoy 19 de junio, pero de 1924, nace Raymond Noorda, el Padrino de las Redes. De 1983 a 1994, lideró #novell y su #Netware para dominar las LAN, enfrentando a Microsoft. Un visionario de la "coopetición". Revive su historia en #retrocomputingmx #HistoriaTech
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Sabías quién es Drew Major? El genio detrás de #Netware, el SO de red que conectó las empresas en los 80/90. Su código hizo posible las #LANNET antes de que existiera Internet. Un héroe retro en #retrocomputingmx #novell #HistoriaDeRedes
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Linus actually has a good point. Filesystem case sensitivity has always, always been controversial. #NetWare was so secure because of the #filesystem case sensitivity (among other things) and then they allowed spaces. And I remember people fucking with NetWare servers by using weird filenames […]
PM/Netware Supervisor's Manual for the TeleVideo Personal Mini PM/4, running an OEM version of Novell Netware, called InfoShare #netware #televideo #retro
