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Netware holds a very fond place in my heart even if the memories are fuzzy. The server was light weight and crazily stable, the client applications were fully f
by BuildTheRobots 4y ago
Netware holds a very fond place in my heart even if the memories are fuzzy. The server was light weight and crazily stable, the client applications were fully featured and the documentation extensive. I've got a boxed copy of 3.11 somewhere and (whilst I'm probably remembering this wrong), I'm convinced the server was only two disks to install (iirc it still chain-loaded from DOS at that point), the client software only 4 disks but the documentation took 8 or 10.
I also remember being obsessed with the Snake screensaver as a kid; if I remember right then you got a snake on screen per CPU core with the length of the snake indicating the load. I was always disappointed I couldn't find a windows or linux equivalent.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y ago> snake on screen per CPU core CPUs were single core back then
- BuildTheRobots 4y agoJust because they're on different sockets... IIRC Dual-CPU P2 motherboards were pretty popular though I don't remember what was in the Netware servers where I first noticed the screensaver.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoDual CPU is not same as multi-core. And dual-cpu systems were uncommon in the 90s because of their cost.
- hestefisk 4y agoPentium Pro came with SMP options, from memory. Not exactly multi core.
- wolrah 4y ago> CPUs were single core back then You could still have multiple CPU cores via multiple sockets.