On 2002-06-05 cctalk_at_classiccmp.org said
>On Wednesday 05 June 2002 06:46 pm, you wrote:
>> Wow, that's cool. I didn't realize Novell started on the 68000.
>>Did it serve files for a PC network? How similar is the NOS to
>>later versions of Netware?
>That early it probably served files for a CP/M workstations.
Indeed it all began with networking CP/M computers. Around 1981 Novell
came to the market with their first networking product, called S-net.
It was a star based network around a specialized server machine with a
68000 processor and a proprietary NOS. It is this machine we are talking
about now. You could connect CP/M machines and PCs to it. Around 1983 the
first version of Netware appeared, called Netware-86. This was a
multitasking file-, print and application server software package that
ran on the PC XT.
I do not know what the exact functionality of S-net was, but I believe
it was multi-user file sharing only.
Kees.
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