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Would be fun with a deep dive into Lantastic, Novell and Banyan Vines.
by unixhero 5y ago
Would be fun with a deep dive into Lantastic, Novell and Banyan Vines.
- tssva 5y agoVines is difficult to run these days because of the hardware license tokens which were used until near their end. By the time Banyan allowed soft tokens almost all remaining users were upgrade users who already had hardware tokens. Not many soft tokens were ever issued. The hardware token requirement hasn't been worked around yet and sets of Vines disks with hardware tokens can be hard to find. They also sell for hundreds of dollars.
- unixhero 5y agoWow do they. This is both very fascinating and a case for software preservationists. This is practically abandonware by now, is it not?
- tibbydudeza 5y agoI only remember using Compsurf command a lot because HDD was so flaky and experimenting with NLM's when Netware 286 and 386 came out and realized it made for a sucky application server. Read about Vines in Byte Magazine - afaik it had something like an enterprise directory which Novell and 3Com Lan Manager did not have.
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