Message-ID: <67BAFB085CD7D21190B80090273F74A45B7D17@emwatent02.meters.com.au> From: "Da Silva, Joe" To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" Subject: RE: A little history Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 10:02:20 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com 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/)