Netadmin.exe

Post #22,048 by tjsinclair 12/19/01 7:16:14 PM Reply	Netadmin.exe This was also available in 4.x and spoke NDS. I used to enjoy showing my students how they could manage their enterprise network from a DOS prompt. Tom Sinclair Speaker-to-Suits The Emperor had all the qualifications for a corpse except, as it were, the most vital one. -- (Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times)
Post #22,096 by Arkadiy 12/20/01 10:20:31 AM Reply	NW 3 - coder's nightmare. I worked there for a wihile. They started writing NLMs before anybody else. So, even though I was on the Windows side of things, I have to say this: An OS that has no memory protection and no preemptive multitasking in version 4 deserves to die. The only reason it has a reputation of "stable" is because of the certification process programmers had to go through. As a part of that, Novel requested all object files, and some source code for the program. They were looking for things that would cause a GPF or 100% CPU on another OS, but would be fatal to entire Netware server. So, Novell acted as our second level test department. And, since they had no virtual memory either, they would request our codes to remove every single uncalled function using #ifdef (the linker could not figure it out). In general, coding for NW 3 and 4 was pure hell.
Post #22,241 by Brandioch 12/21/01 1:32:56 PM Reply	Memory is like an orgasm. It's better when you don't have to fake it. (quoting badly from I don't know who) That's the reason Novell didn't have virtual memory in the earlier versions. Everything running was running in memory and they didn't need to swap out anything. Not to mention the performance hit if you ran out of real memory and started hitting disks. Other than that, yep, the memory model sucked big time. And writing nlm's for it was very difficult. But it was FAST! And it was STABLE! I would rather pay the extra so the ISV can put the extra hours in to get their software to run without leaks or anything ON MY SERVER! I've seen NetWare 3.x boxes that have been running for more than 3 years without a single reboot or failure.

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