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From: dougm@ico.isc.com (Doug McCallum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Novell support on Sun workstation
Keywords: Novell, Sun, UNIX
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.174752.1175@ico.isc.com>
Date: 16 Jan 91 17:47:52 GMT
References: <647@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM> <1991Jan8.025754.13888@world.std.com> <1991Jan11.165918.12124@comm.wang.com>
Reply-To: dougm@ico.ISC.COM (Doug McCallum)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO
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In article <1991Jan11.165918.12124@comm.wang.com> lws@comm.wang.com (Lyle Seaman) writes:
...
>OK, while we're at it...
>Altos, DG, HP, MIPS, Prime, and of course, Wang all have (I believe) announced
>some UNIX hardware supporting Portable Netware.  They are probably selling
>it separately from the hardware, so if you already own the right hardware,
>you can buy it.

The typical Novell Portable Netware contract restricts sale to one's own OS.
You have to have both the right hardware and the right OS.  This may not be
universally true but appears to be for 386 based UNIX although Novell has the
option to change things.


Doug McCallum
Interactive Systems Corp
dougm@ico.isc.com