chinny22 wrote on 2020-06-24, 21:38:
I'm surprised how many people are saying their schools had a NT3 server. Did the education system get it cheap?
Would have thought peer to peer was good enough, Computer labs were pretty basic in those pre internet for everyone days
I know Microsoft made a deal with the Australian Education system, Not sure of the full details but know dad being a teacher got bring home a few volume licence CD's like Office and Windows and install it. That was very late 90's maybe early 2000's though.
Well, i was in the computer education system where we had allot ot the latest tech and software.
But back in the early 1990’s it was Microsoft vs Novell vs. UNIX systems.
Novell was King of the Networks and Servers because they where easy and cheap to own.
Novell netware and Groupwise and Novell Database all came for FREE with the purchase of Novell server.
You could setup a Novell Server on a 486 computer with 8mb ram and 20mb harddrive.
And Novell could network Apple computers too.
In fact Apple use to use Novell to network there computers prior to OS X with tcp/ip .
Novell was more robust than WinNT 3.5.1 server.
Microsoft only supported Microsoft software.
But Universities in Silicon Valley did not start offering student discounts on software until about Windows XP.
But prior to that you could subscribe to Microsoft technet and get access to lots of beta and demo software.