On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:31:52 +1000, terryc wrote in message
<20260627163152.6c4ca855@???>:

> On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:06:04 +0200
> Arnt Karlsen <arnt@???> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > ..I've played way too long today with search engine AI playing dumb
> > by insisting on pushing the amusing anti-GPL idea that "Scottish
> > Novell Netware consultants did not have access to Linux source
> > code", which may (or not) warrant this thread...
> >
> I don't know rabbit hole you are following, but from my buggy memory,
> NOVELL provided PC ethernet networking before Micosoft and IBM. It was
> called Peer to Peer and rather buggy requiring a number of reboots
> each day.
>
> This was followed by the time of three (802.?) stacks(Novell, then IBM
> and finally Microsoft) and then four as TCP/IP came along for MS Dos.
>
> IBM OS/2 had no problems handling the multiple stacks.

..thanks for that rabbit hole plug idea, I'll try OS/2 Warp on my
cranky old D-Link Dl(?)-524, it's been boycotting everything else
I've thrown its way.

> but with MS Dos
> if you wanted to cover the sub-range you had multiple BAT files. The
> Novell stack was always more stable than the MS stack.
>
>
> The copy of Netware 3 that I scounged for home use relied on a MS Dos
> start
>
> As I remember it, Linus posted his "I have a 386 kernel" some time
> after that.
>
> So it would have been the other way around the Linux contributors
> most likely knew of and used Novell and Netware.
>
> Other info,there was a version of Netware that used OS/2 as its base
> and at some stage you could buy a book containing a CD with a two
> client Netware server.
>
> Novell had professional certification before Microsoft and Redhat.
>
> FWIR, Caldera Lunux (1997-2000) tried to copy/emulate Netware on
> Linux.
>
>
> Personal 2c, having used Novell Wordperfect on Dos, I can never
> stomach any of the various *Offices on Linux and was highly motivated
> to skill up in Tex/LaTeX.
>
> terryc



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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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