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I was excited when I upgraded my NetWare 3.11 servers to NetWare 4, installed the TCP/IP update, and went to enable it.

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.

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I don't remember that. I do remember that with 2.12 and 2.15 I occasionally had to use a hex editor on disk drive-related files to make the drives work with certain hardware.

I also recall having to key-in hard drive defect tables as part of the install.

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