Novell NetWare

For games, it is famous for Snipes. Snipes was the first network game for consumers and is considered a precursor to networked first-person-shooters. The internet currently seems indicate Snipes to be the only game for NetWare.

Various version of NetWare have been created to run on proprietary hardware, proprietary and licensed kernels (as standalone operating systems), software only, add-on hardware, CP/M, MS-DOS, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT, Windows 95, OS/2, FreeBSD, Palm, and Linux. It has run on various architectures including 6800, 68k, 8086, 8088, 286, 386 and up. It has run Java, Netscape, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Bash. It has supported MFM, RLL, ESDI, SCSI, RAID, and USB. It did all of these things in a timely manor soon after their availability and often before other operation systems utilized them.

Netware was always designed and innovation centered around sharing resources over networks. Disks, Files, Printers, to be sure; but it also allowed such oddities as network sharing of serial devices. A computer on the network could use another computer's analog modem or cable modem, it's extended memory, it's wireless card, any of it's USB devices.