On 26 Oct 96 07:02am, Richard Peer wrote to George Fliger:
 RP> In a message of , George Fliger (1:137/2)
 RP> writes:
 GF>While Netware for OS/2 is by no means a mainstream product, there are
 GF>many who actively use it (just a FYI for you).
 RP> I have actually seen the product in operation. There are three
 RP> essential differences between straight Netware and Netware for
 RP> OS/2.
I'm glad to hear from someone who has actually used the product.  It
piqued my interest the first time I heard that NW4 could be run under
OS/2 (being an advocate of OS/2).
 RP> 1. The meory management, the avaialable physical memory must be
 RP> splitt between OS/2 and Netware. We found a practical minimum
 RP> system had 32 Meg with 16 assigned each way, 48 meg was much
 RP> better, but disk size will have its usuall influence on that.
I can relate to that.  I would have guessed 48 - 64 megs to be a good
starting point.
 RP> 2. The disk driver as the physical disk must be shared betweeb
 RP> OS/2 and Netware. You have an OS/2 HPFS or FAT partition (or
 RP> both) and a normal Netware partition on the disk. Ours was
 RP> Adaptec SCSI.
Sounds pretty normal up to this point.
 RP> 3. The Nic driver as that must also be shared between the two
 RP> operating systems. We were using 3Com 3C509 cards.
Again, pretty normal situation.  NICs are inherently cross-platformed
and multi-driven to support other platforms (Unix, etc.).
 RP> The Netware console is a text screen and that is managed by
 RP> OS/2 quite nicely either in a window or as full screen.
Many of the CLU's and other utilities have OS/2 counterparts, the
majority of which look no different than their DOS counterparts.  The
OS/2-specific ones look slightly different (look at NWUSER for Windows,
then NWTOOLS for OS/2) but provide the same functionality.
Thanks for the feedback. I had considered setting up such a
server/client configuration, if for no other reason than to share the
experience.
George
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