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From: karinc@isc.intel.com (Karin Coffee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Need info on NOVELL LANS on IBM "Clones"
Message-ID: <1060@intelisc.isc.intel.com>
Date: 15 Dec 90 03:01:37 GMT
References: <1990Dec9.210208.12136@unixland.uucp> <1990Dec10.141744.27177@ccs.carleton.ca>
Organization: Intel Supercomputer Systems Division, Beaverton, OR
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In article <1990Dec10.141744.27177@ccs.carleton.ca> tmunro@ccs.carleton.ca (Tim Munro) writes:
>In article <1990Dec9.210208.12136@unixland.uucp> matt@unixland.uucp
>(Matt Harvey) writes:
> >Will NOVELL networks work properly on non-ibm machines, or do they
> >need to run on "real IBM" hardware? Is this true? If not, what clones
> >will NOVELL work properly with?
>
>	We use home grown AT's and 386's for our file servers. Lately
>we have been using Magus mother boards and memory cards. The run just
>wonderfully.

As you might guess, all of our PCs and the file server are Intel boxes.
They work just fine.

Basically, you can use just about any PC for a workstation (just watch out
for configuration problems with varieties of DOS).  Novell tests machines
to give them an accreditation that they are suitable for NetWare.  Having to
purchase "real IBM" hardware is a crock.


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