Sellam,
When Novell First started out in I think 1979 they used to be NDS, Inc.
(How Ironic right?) They started out doing custom build-to-order hardware
and software. They developed S-Net for serving files and printing to
networked machines. Their biggest hurdle was getting files served to all
of the diverse systems out there at the time (DOS, CP/M and so forth) and I
recall something about Noorda bringing in some heavy-weight programmer who
got their proprietary systems to connect to PC's and other systems and they
when they went into a total re-org, started working on Protective Mode OS's,
changed their name to Novell and really shook things up, one of my other
favorites was Corvus as they were really doing some remarkable stuff and
they got murdered by Novell as they just couldn't keep up. Anybody
remember the old 3Com 3+Open Network Servers that had to load everything
from QIC Tapes? How about Banyan Networks. :-)
I remember in my early days of working as a technician I saw one of the
first Novell fileservers that a "Network Engineer" was working on and when
he popped the case (Standard XT Type Case) it was a custom M68000
motherboard, the first I'd ever seen before and I was amazed and it always
stuck with me and I've been meaning to go looking for one as I've been
working with Novell since 2.12 generating those good old NET$OS files (Oh
joy!).
Curt
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From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo_at_siconic.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: Wanted: Original Novell 68000 System
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Marvin Johnston wrote:
>
> > > Anyone have on the original Novell 68000 based systems for sale/trade?
> >
> > Actually, I have two systems including a hard drive subsystem with IIRC
> > 2 Rodime 40 MB very noisy hard drives. Since I've never fired them up
> > except for the hard drive module, I don't know if they work or not. They
> > do not have any software with them but they seem to be complete and were
> > working when pulled from service. Since I am cutting back on most things
> > that are post 1982 or so, these are extra. Contact me off list if you
> > are interested.
>
> 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?
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
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Received on Thu Jun 06 2002 - 12:16:39 BST