[AT] Off-topic Operating Systems (was Re: Forum registration)

[Howard Fleming]

On 03/09/2015 10:36 PM, Al Walker wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mogrits
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> Yeah I remember writing batch files to load programs and cad files while I
> went off and put on a pot of coffee. I wrote routines to plot dump drawings
> while I was at home asleep hoping the Kohinoor drafting pens in the plotter
> would have ink enough to get through the night. I could "CD/" and "DR" with
> the best of them. And there was NO ONE to ask about that stuff at the time.
> I look back at it as a time of mis-spent youth. I could have spent that
> time in a Pool Hall. People still remember I could do all that stuff and
> look to me as a computer guru when actually, the tech passed me by about 15
> yrs ago. Is there still a such thing as a Novell Network?
>
> Warren
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>
> Now there is another operating system I got along with pretty well.  I did
> have formal training in NetWare 3 and NetWare 4 and NetWare 4.11.  If I
> could just find where I put those 4.11 disks, I'd use that here at home.   I
> think there is still some form of NetWare in existence, but I haven't
> researched it.
>
> Al in NW MN

Yes, Novell networks are still around..... tho nothing like they used to 
be (Thank you Microsoft and FUD.....)  If setup properly, they are very 
stable and just run (on and on and on....).  Used to install and 
maintain Novell Networks 2x up to the OES2 version. Exited that line of 
work when my son was born (wanted him to know who I was other than the 
person that showed up late at night and usually on weekends....).

(end of rant...:o).

Now called OES2, and running on top of SUSE as a service.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell_Open_Enterprise_Server

Novell was bought by Attachmate a few years ago.

I started out running CP/M when I started, switched to dos when I got my 
first 386 machine (Wyse 386). Switched to windows when 3.1 came out, 
gave up on windows at about the time XP was released (got tired of 
reloading my home machine every 6 months (or so) to clear out problems. 
  Now running Linux at home.  Still supporting windows and macs at work 
(office environment).

And I will stop while I am sort of ahead... <grin>.

Howard