That's exactly it. It was confusing to me as well, still is. Netware basically provided networking and login services - something that Windows NT basically th

That's exactly it. It was confusing to me as well, still is. Netware basically provided networking and login services - something that Windows NT basically threw in as a "feature" on top of it being a general purpose OS. Netware's demise was a matter of time. I am reading other comments here stating that it was the lack of preemptive multitasking that doomed it. Not even close. Netware was a feature mascarading as an OS.