When the Power Macintosh ran NetWare #VintageComputing #Apple #Networking

Cameron Kaiser at Old Vintage Computing Research digs into a narrow period when the Apple Power Macintosh ran Novel NetWare, a dominant player in networked servers in the 1980s and 1990s. While the software started networking PCs, nearly all major players in the computing world worked on some form of NetWare collaboration, even Apple eventually albeit briefly, codenamed Cyberpunk.

No, I don’t mean Macintoshes accessing NetWare servers as clients: we mean Macs as NetWare servers themselves. As proof, we’ll take an entire tour of Power Macintosh NetWare on the 6116CD and try to boot it on the Apple Network Server, its actual intended target. NetWare on the Mac really existed as part of the same bizarro universe that ported the Macintosh Finder to Novell DR-DOS — meaning it’s time for yet another weird Apple story during Apple’s weirdest days.

See the very detailed history of this unlikely collaboration in the post here.


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