Running NetWare on the 6100 (and Apple Network Server)

ClassicHasClass

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No, not the client - actual NetWare. It looks like this:

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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:

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More screenshots and history:

 

bakkus

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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!