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.