Novell NetWare

Novell NetWare is a family of network operating systems.

Features

Network services are provided as value added processes (VAPs) with NetWare 2.1 and NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs) in NetWare 3.11.

History

The system was originally introduced as a part of a hardware/software package called S-Net by the Novell Corp. in 1983 and ran on Motorola 68000 based servers built by the company, the system was renamed NetWare in 1984 with the introduction of NetWare/86 which was a software only version that ran on servers based around Intel 8086/8 processors and were sold bundled with networking cards and systems for the IBM PC and compatible systems.

NetWare became the predominant network operating system of the 80s and early 90s, but lost out to Microsoft Windows servers in the mid 90s. While predominantly sold as a stand-alone product, there were also versions that ran atop of OS/2 and the current version runs on top of SuSE Linux.

Operating System Products

NetWare (1984)

NetWare/S-Net
NetWare/Omninet
NetWare/ARCnet
NetWare/G-Net
NetWare/SM

Advanced NetWare

1.0 (1985)
1.2 (1985) - Intel 80286 protected mode
2.0 (1986)

SFT NetWare
ELS NetWare

NetWare 2.2 (1991)

NetWare 386

3.0 (Sep 1989)
3.1 (Jun 1990)
3.11 - 311PTG.EXE
3.12 - 312PTD.EXE, 312Y2KP2.EXE
3.2 (NetWare 3.12 + Enhancement Pack)

NetWare 4

4.0 (Apr 1993)
4.01 (1993)
4.02 (1994)
4.1 (Jan 1995)
4.11 (1996)

Development Tools

NetWare Client SDK
NetWare System Calls for DOS

Publisher

Novell Corp.