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From: averett@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Shava Averett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Macintosh with NetWare 386
Summary: Mac NLM = vaporware?
Keywords: Mac, NetWare 386
Message-ID: <18204@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 90 00:02:42 GMT
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In article <645@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM> ehaubach@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM (Edward Haubach) writes:
>
>tom@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu (Tom Gerace) writes:
>
>>We will soon be installing a nice big server with Novell
>>NetWare 386.  We have the need to attach an existing AppleTalk
>>network to this server, but are unsure if this is possible
>>with NetWare 386.
>
>>Can this be done right now?
>
[a good summary, which further summarized comes down to "NO."]
>
>If you do not have a 286 server or bridge I think you're SOL until
>Novell comes out with a Macintosh NLM for its 386 servers.

I have been waiting for the Mac NLM since the advent of Netware 386.
We were told *really* that the NLM would be deliverable in Dec90, but 
we have not been able to obtain even a beta copy.  

In an article in PC_Week which I got today, they reviewed 3Com and 
Novell's Mac "accomodations," and there was a reference in there to
the Mac NLM coming out "sometime in 1991."  NOT "sometime in the
{first, second, third} quarter of 1991," but just "sometime."  This,
I find disturbing.

Not only that, but I have been unable to find anyone from Novell who
can give me a real functional spec of what level of service(s) I can
expect from the Mac NLM in its interaction with the DOS (and TCP/IP)
NLMs.  This is to say, can I do messaging from any workstation to 
another, like SEND (or say, talk on Unix)?  Is there any mailer 
support provided, like a native smtp/mhs gateway?

Am I asking the wrong people, or are other people getting equally
damped/mixed signals about this (non-)product?

Shava Nerad Averett
UNC Radiology
shava@retina.rad.unc.edu
standard disclaimers apply