Mail Archives: opendos/2000/10/31/18:29:04
Actually, I found NetWare 3 to be crap (especially printing bugs).
Maybe lacked some patches ... ?
OTOH, NetWare 4 was a thing of beauty and joy, rock solid and
no printing bugs!
Also, Novell's 32 bit DOS drivers were a thing of beauty and joy,
living in extended memory and using no conventional memory
(not even UMB space :-). Very rock solid, with no compatibility
problems with app's - unlike the M$ NDIS drivers for DOS,
which use heaps of memory, often crash and do affect a
number of applications.
Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben A L Jemmett [SMTP:ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, 1 November 2000 2:55
> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: A little history
>
> > As
> > for SCO, you must not have heard of the many horror stories about it and
> > people were forced to upgrade to get rid of those bugs and pay big, big
> > bucks to upgrade. Much like MS crap and Novell Netware.
> Huh? What? Apart from the last few NW5 service packs, NetWare is
> certainly
> not bug-ridden enough to be compared to MS's attempts at software
> engineering. NetWare 3.2 (actually 3.12 with all the patches - 3.12 is
> dated 12th March, 1993) is rock solid. 4.11/4.2 I've no first-hand
> experience with, but is pretty much the same. I run NetWare 5 beta 3 on
> my
> development server here and it only crashes when I muck up something in my
> code.
>
> The majority of bug-fixes on NetWare are as patch NLMs, which load
> themselves over parts of the kernel using the Patch Manager (PMxxx.NLM) or
> replacement service NLMs. 4 and 5 have Service Packs, like NT, which are
> all the patches and upgrades at once (although their quality control is
> slipping lately).
>
> Regards,
> Ben A L Jemmett.
> (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)
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