However, by the mid 1990s it was clear that Windows NT and the TCP/IP protocol of the Internet would soon make Novell and NetWare fade into the sunset.
I think Windows 95 and "intranetware 4" came in either summer 96 or summer 97. By 98 or 99 we had some ISDN internet connectivity, I assume via a proxy running on the netware server. Internet access was still ISDN based when I left in summer 2000.
Then, I saw the UX. You had to configure IP addresses as dotted HEX quads. It was pretty obvious that someone at Novell fundamentally didn’t get it.
I also recall having to key-in hard drive defect tables as part of the install.
No. You have the timing about right but not the version number.
Netware 4 was still based around IPX/SPX; the big new feature was a network-wide directory server, called NDS, for distributed authentication.
IntraNetware was specifically NetWare 4.11, with improved TCP/IP integration, an Internet-standards email server, and a web server so it could host LAN-internal intranet websites.
https://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/1996/08/pr96151.ht...
> Netwars was a key component of this.
Was that a typo for "Netware"? Netwars was a different thing: a game that ran on Netware networks.
The webserver was a key thing in later years too -- as you could put an <img src='c:/con/con'> on the homepage, immense fun.