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From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: A little history
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:54:42 -0000
Organization: Jemmett Glover Software Development
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

> 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/)