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Re:The Death of Alpha on NT (1999) by EvanAnderson on Saturday June 26, 2021 @12:46AM (#27639192)
Netware and its history is something I'd love to hear more about. I got into IT support in 1995-96 and saw a fair amount of Netware 3.12 and later 4.11 but chose a Microsoft-centric path for my "day job" and a Linux-centric path for my personal computing. Netware seemed interesting but much harder to find low-level details about. NDS was interesting, but the promoted advantages over NT 3.51/4.0 domains weren't an issue in the size of NT deployments I worked on.

I'd certainly never heard of this processor-independent Netware effort. Its history sounds intriguing.

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Re:The Death of Alpha on NT (1999) by rasz on Saturday June 26, 2021 @01:46AM (#27639453)
YouTube Computer History Museum "Oral History of Kanwal Rekhi" (Excelan, Novell CTO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox0e7yVgsXM has some interesting stories about early Ethernet adapters made by Excelan, Novell, their strategies, Lite products and bonkers ideas (Mormon run, trying to compete with Microsoft, hate of Unix despite owning it).
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Re:The Death of Alpha on NT (1999) by lukeh on Saturday June 26, 2021 @01:45AM (#27639447)
I worked at Novell in 2006-7 after they bought (what became) Domain Services for Windows from my company. This enabled eDirectory to become an Active Directory compatible domain controller. Integrating the two worlds (whilst imperfect) was a lot of fun and there were some great people there. And, as someone who loves computing history, it was great to delve into the back story of NetWare and NDS.
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