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Information On Novell's Portable NetWare
DocumentID: 628116
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:42:24 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

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Introduction:
What is Portable NetWare? Novell, Inc. is the manufacturer of NetWare, a Network Operating System. NetWare typically runs on an Intel 80386 processor. Portable NetWare has been around for more than a year now. Portable NetWare refers to NetWare that has been "ported" or translated from code that is Intel specific to code that is specific to another machine. NetWare is hardware dependent meaning that a release of NetWare will only run on a specific machine.

Compatibility:
NetWare is NetWare. Portable NetWare on an HP (Hewlett-Packard) 3000 with a PC workstation attached, responds the same as NetWare running on a Compaq 386 machine with a PC attached. There are programs at the Novell setup to verify the fact that a PC attaching to any version of Portable NetWare will act the same as a PC attaching to the Intel version of NetWare. This is not to say that there will be no additional problems in Portable NetWare. This is only to emphasize that Portable NetWare should behave the same as Intel type NetWare.

Machines Using Portable NetWare:
A complete list of current machines to which NetWare has been ported is not available; however, the versions will be the same on any platform (i.e., a 3.10 version of Portable NetWare will have the same functionality as NetWare 3.10 on Intel). NetWare for VMS is a version of NetWare written to run on VMS which is an operating system for the VAX. As of 04/08/91, NetWare for VMS has the functionality of NetWare v2.15.

Synopsis
Portable NetWare smells, tastes, and feels like the Intel version of NetWare to the users on DOS machines.

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