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Explanation Of Portable NetWare
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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:31:23 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

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Symptoms: What is Portable NetWare? Solutions: Novell Inc. is the manufacturer of NetWare, a network operating system that is currently at revision 3.11. NetWare runs on an Intel 80386 processor (or above).

The Corporate Lab has received a few calls regarding Portable NetWare. Portable NetWare has been around for a few years. Portable NetWare refers to NetWare that has been "ported" or translated from code that is Intel specific to code that is specific to a machine, typically running Unix. NetWare is hardware dependent meaning that a release of NetWare will run on a specific machine. If a customer is using Portable NetWare on an HP (Hewlett Packard) 9000 and is having problems running WP, be assured that the workstation that is running WP by attaching to the 9000 is the same as a PC that attaches to a Compaq 386 machine that is running NetWare. The point here is that NetWare is NetWare. There are test suites at Novell set up to verify the fact that a PC attaching to any version of Portable NetWare will act the same as on the Intel version of NetWare. (This is not to say that there will be no additional problems in Portable NetWare, only to emphasize that a computer running Portable NetWare should behave the same as NetWare.) WPCorp does not have a complete list of current machines that NetWare has been ported to; however, the versions will be the same on any platform. A 3.10 version of Portable NetWare will have the same functionality as NetWare 3.10. (NetWare for VMS is a version of NetWare written to run on VMS which is an operating system for the VAX. As of this writing, 05-06-92, NetWare for VMS has the functionality of NetWare v2.15. WPCorp does not know what Novell will name NetWare for VMS upgrade.)

A word on Unix. Unix itself is not hardware dependent. Bell Labs (AT&T) licenses Unix so widely that many manufacturers have licensed it for a variety of processors, so the manufacturer's port is hardware dependent. Therefore Unix varies widely from machine to machine; the OS should look and feel the same to the users, not necessarily to the programmers. This is why Novell had to make their source code available to the companies who wanted to port it to their machines.

Portable NetWare smells, tastes, and feels like NetWare to the users on DOS machines.

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