At early years of Ethernet, Novell have very unusual point of sale. Because network infrastructure was expensive, many companies worked on old thin coaxial an e

At early years of Ethernet, Novell have very unusual point of sale. Because network infrastructure was expensive, many companies worked on old thin coaxial an even on cheap 75Ohm (not 50 Ohm), so suffer wavelength issues. What I mean, each network (to be exact, coaxial was bus topology), have distributed points, where due to wavelength issues machine don't hear other machines. This solved by carefully selection of cable snippets of different length, until you could see targeted machine. Unfortunately, because of obvious computational limitations you cannot make everyone see everyone other machines on cable - in real life people choose to make seen server, and that time it obviously was Netware. PS Yes, in 1996 we already have windows disk shares even on old 3.1, but due to described issues, only could reliable see Netware server, so have severe limited choices. In early 2000s, market flooded by cheap Ethernet switches, so all move to twisted pair and Netware become history.