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From: mobo@sphinx.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Novell Netware Serial Printers ?
Message-ID: <1271@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Mar-87 23:46:58 EST
Article-I.D.: sphinx.1271
Posted: Thu Mar 12 23:46:58 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Mar-87 00:19:53 EST
References: <292@aucs.UUCP> <1787@ubc-ean.UUCP> <4372@utah-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: mobo@sphinx.UUCP (Samuel Wilson)
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Organization: U Chicago Social Sciences
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Keywords: XON/XOFF DTR SPOOLING NETWARE
Xref: utgpu comp.dcom.lans:264 comp.sys.ibm.pc:2291
Summary: Now see non-dedicated 286 Netware

In article <4372@utah-cs.UUCP> j-brown@CS.UTAH.EDU (Jeffrey L. Brown) writes:
>In article <1787@ubc-ean.UUCP> lau@ubc-ean.UUCP (Etienne Lau) writes:
>>In article <292@aucs.UUCP> wdw@aucs.UUCP (Bill Wilder) writes:
>
>>I can't help you with your problem, but I would like to know what you think of
>>Netware 286.  Specifically, what I want to know is,
>>with Netware 286 and above boards, can you increase the local DOS size on the
>>file server by moving all cacheing and etc above the 640 boundary.
>
>Our net at the college of law is using 286 v2.0a SFT Level 1.  The file server
>is a Sperry IT with 4M of memory and Novell's disk coprocessor controlling an
>Adaptec 4070 RLL disk controller.  The system has performed flawlessly now for
>9 months, handling almost 60 networked PC's.
>j-brown@cs.utah.edu

And now check out a new Novell thing called Non-dedicated /286 Netware.
It runs Netware in extended memory > 640K (we have a cheapo and highly
recommendable board called a Chess-board with 4Meg in it).  The DOS
process [because if you scratch NOVELL too deeply you find unix] runs
in real mode and the 640 stuff in protected mode.  And it actually 
works.  I have speedup.com, sidekick, carbon copy and a bunch of 
resident stuff running and the thing miraculously functions.  And it 
goes even faster than a normal AT would:  if you save a 1 meg file, 
it immediately claims that it is finished (caching the stuff in the 
4 meg available) and waits for the processor to be idle, then switches
to protected mode (presumably) and saves it.  

Now for the miracle of miracles.  I PKXARC-ed a 4 meg archive that had
been semi-trashed, and when it got to the trashed part, it hung the 
machine.  I sat and pounded the keyboard for a while, filled the 
keyboard buffer and beeped for a while.  But the disk was still 
flashing every once and a while.  Nobody on the network knew that I
had crashed the file server.  I had crashed the process, and Netware
was happily running away in protected mode.  

Samuel Wilson         ..ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mobo
                            FOTMOBO@UCHMVS1.Bitnet
University of Chicago, Division of Social Sciences