<short_ot_explanation>
Novell is a platform, like windows, based on a Unix kernel (notice when you
boot a Novell box you must mount the filesystem) and all administration is
remote. It has its own file system, not FAT12, 16, or 32 (NFS - network
file system). There is no GUI on a Novell box. DOS/Windows would never
have been on a Novell box. You are probably thinking of the administration
being on Windows (nwadmin.exe) but you can admin a Novell box from other
platforms as well. Novell boxes typically have an uptime longer than 1-2
years [or hundreds of percents longer than any M$ box], because memory
management is quite a bit different, and a GUI does not kill performance.
</short_ot_explanation>
David L. Penton, MCP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Billy Cravens
Forgive my ignorance, but I thought Novell ran on DOS/Windows (if it's that
old,
likely it was a DOS box).
So it would be an MS box.
--
Billy Cravens
HR Web Development, Sabre
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> David,
>
> Don't mean to burst your bubble, but it was probably running Novell and
not NT.
>
> Loyd Campbell
>
> "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04/10/2001 12:24:13 AM
> Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> That's a great story! When did you ever hear of M$ staying up 4 years all
> by itself?
> Almost like a Unix box.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "C. Hatton Humphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > ** Server 54, Where Are You?
> >
> > The University of North Carolina has finally found a network
> > server that, although missing for four years, hasn't missed a
> > packet in all that time.
> >
> > Try as they might, university administrators couldn't find the
> > server. Working with Novell, IT workers tracked it down by
> > meticulously following cable until they literally ran into a
> > wall. The server had been mistakenly sealed behind drywall by
> > maintenance workers. - John Rendleman
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