On Fri, 2020-01-03 at 12:00 -0600, cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote: > On 1/2/2020 1:35 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: > > > > Anyone done anything with Netware *for PowerPC*? Allegedly > > > > there was > > > > some attempt at Apple to put it on what later became the > > > > Network Servers > > > > (the codename was apparently "Wormhole"). > > > I know the people who were working in it (based on Portable > > > NetWare) > > > AFAIK it never shipped. > > Was this based on the Cygnus PowerPC port, or was it Apple- > > specific? > > > Sun did a power? PC? port I think paid for by IBM, which would have > run > on both the open Apple servers that briefly existed, and on IBM PPC > systems. > > A lot of odd PPC work happened in a group a friend worked for in > Austin > TX, but not sure if they did Netware work there.? There was a lot of > OS2 > work there as well, but that's off track a bit more. > > thanks > Jim
I was lead tech at a small computer company in Asheville, NC. in those days. I ran OS/2 from version 2 in the early 90's to Ecomstation in the early 2000's. Does Talingent Pink sound familiar? OS/2 was ported to powerPC, and so was Netware iirc. The field was quite busy with hopeful Microsoft killers. OS/2 was to be morphed into a cross-platform o/s, to wean folks from dos/x86..... Then PPC kills the x86 and we all get a decent os. That was the plan anyway. I never saw OS2 for PPC or Netware for OS/2, thought I know both to have shipped. Jeff
