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Running NetWare on the 6100 (and Apple Network Server)

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ClassicHasClass
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Dec 24, 2023 - #1
No, not the client - actual NetWare. It looks like this:



This is NetWare 4.11 running on a Power Mac 6100, though the project (codenamed Cyberpunk) was actually intended for the Apple Network Server. Incredibly, there is still a Forth word "setenv-netware" in the production ANS ROM. Cyberpunk comes with a partitioner, installer and bootloader, and while it has its bugs, it all seems to work. Apple cancelled it in October 1995 and the ANS never ended up running it. Here's a converted PICT resource from the bootloader:



More screenshots and history:

When the Power Macintosh ran NetWare (featuring Wormhole and Cyberpunk)

This entry and the software we'll demonstrate is in large part thanks to an anonymous Apple developer who was part of the NetWare team. Than...
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bakkus
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Dec 24, 2023 - #2
Oh wow!
Love these writeups of things that could very well have been lost to history.
This opens up a whole new world of retro shenanigans as well!

This Does Not Compute
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Dec 24, 2023 - #3
Sure would be interesting if a copy of the disc ended up on the Internet Archive...

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