On 1/5/2020 12:56 AM, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk wrote:
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
My friend was on the OS2 PPC team, I think, didn't mention that. Been
too long since
I heard from him to be absolutely sure what was when.
If I had to guess from my memory of what platforms he was on, it was
PPCÂ OS/2 first,
then he and everyone they didn't can was moved to AIX.
Then the decimated it as they have most US development teams.
thanks
Jim
