Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!peregrine!zardoz!tgate!irsx01!spl1!wheaton!stefan
From: stefan@wheaton.UUCP (Stefan Brandle )
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Netware 386
Summary: Probably under UNIX
Keywords: Novell, Netware, 386
Message-ID: <994@wheaton.UUCP>
Date: 20 Apr 89 17:49:57 GMT
References: <1710@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Reply-To: stefan@wheaton.UUCP (Stefan Brandle )
Organization: Wheaton College, IL
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The trade magazines have had several articles recently about several
companies working with Novell to produce what Novell's magazine LAN TIMES
(April, 1989 -- front page) calls Portable NetWare.  To summarize, NCR and
Prime Computer helped develop Novell-under-UNIX which will include all sorts
of good networking stuff including support for NFS, TOPS (Sun) as well
as ANSI C, and POSIX.  As far as I can tell, Novell licenses the OS to 
different vendors who then do as they wish with it.  Some are to have 
dedicated servers that run in the full 386 mode, others are going to implement 
it under UNIX, others might do something different.  Since the source is being
licensed, there may well be Novell support for non-Intel machines soon.
Speculation as to where it will all go is left as an exercise for the reader ...

Products are expected to be generally available 4th quarter.  Given how things
go these days (ie., Novell 2.15) who knows when it will actually be.
The best thing is to bug your local Novell dealer for a peek at the April
LAN TIMES.

Hope this helps,
Stefan Brandle
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