[lug] OT: netware

[Jeffrey Siegal]

Hugh Brown wrote:
> My sister-in-law is writing a paper on operating systems for a business
> class and wants to know what Netware is.  I've never actually interacted
> with it as a standalone OS.  I read some of the documentation on the
> novell site and it looks like it can be a standalone operating system. 
> I also got the impression that it's an operating system that no one
> writes software for except novell and that the software they do write is
> just for managing network wide resources like printing, file sharing,
> account management, etc.

No, there was (and probably still is) third party software for Netware.