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What would be the benefit of porting IPX/SPX to Unix? Netware already ran on TCP/IP.
by timbit42 4y ago
What would be the benefit of porting IPX/SPX to Unix? Netware already ran on TCP/IP.
- nobody9999 4y ago>What would be the benefit of porting IPX/SPX to Unix? Netware already ran on TCP/IP. Uhh...The millions of clients who didn't have IP stacks? I'd note that Novell didn't include an IP stack in Netware until 1996[0]. By then they'd already lost to Microsoft. And they'd purchased Unix more than three years earlier, but didn't port Netware to Unix at all. Rather it was Netware on Linux, and wasn't released until 2005 -- when Netware was already irrelevant. Had they migrated to Unix in the 1993-1994 time frame they would have eaten Microsoft's lunch. But they didn't. And so they lost. And they are gone. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWare#NetWare_4.x https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWare#NetWare_4.x
- spookthesunset 4y agoI remember back when doing LAN parties and stuff IPX/SPX for some reason always seemed to work better for games.