The NetWare 286 Product Family


The table below illustrates the stratification of the current NetWare 286
product line.  In an effort to make the table as simple as possible, not all
possible features are listed, only the most common.  These features do change
relatively often, so if you feel that one of the listings is not clear or
correct in any manner, please contact me or post a question in the appropriate
forum of NetWire.

Support for ELS NetWare is in NOVA, Section 1 - "ELS NetWare".
Support for Adv/SFT NetWare is in NOVA, Section 3 - "NetWare 2.1x".


Andrew Burbank, NetWire SysOp (76702,1166)                  November 18, 1990
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                                 ELS I      ELS II     Adv       SFT

Current Version                  2.12       2.15c      2.15c     2.15c

Maximum Active Users             4          8          100       100
Dedicated Server                 Yes        Yes        Yes       Yes
Non-dedicated Server             Yes        Yes        Yes       No

Allow linking of LAN drivers     Yes        Yes        Yes       Yes
Number of LAN boards/server      1          1 (1)      4         4
Support Appletalk                No         Yes        Yes       Yes
Support third party drivers      Yes        Yes        Yes       Yes

Max # of disk drives/server      2          2          32        32
Supports ISA disk controllers    Yes        Yes        Yes       Yes
Supports PS/2 MFM                Yes        Yes        Yes       Yes
Supports PS/2 ESDI               Yes        Yes        Yes       Yes
Supports PS/2 SCSI               No         Yes        Yes       Yes
Supports DCB, DCB/2, EDCB        No         No         Yes       Yes
Supports VADDs                   No         No         Yes       Yes

Max Disk Storage (2)             2 Gbyte    2GB        2GB       2GB
Max File Size                    255 meg    255 meg    255 meg   255 meg
Max Volume Size                  255 meg    255 meg    255 meg   255 meg

Hot Fix                          Yes        Yes        Yes       Yes
Disk Mirroring                   No         No         No        Yes
Disk Duplexing                   No         No         No        Yes
TTS Support                      No         No         No        Yes

Supports VAPs (3)                No         Yes        Yes       Yes
Supports UPS Monitoring          Yes        Yes        Yes       Yes
Supports Remote Boot (4)         Yes        Yes        Yes       Yes

Print Server Included            No         No         Yes       Yes
Btrieve Included                 No         Yes        Yes       Yes
MHS Included                     No         Yes        Yes       Yes
OS/2 Requestor Included          No         Yes        Yes       Yes



Notes:

(1) ELS II v2.15 allows linking of an Appletalk board for LAN B, as
    well as a remote, asych driver for LAN B or LAN C.  Thus ELS II
    can theoretically have 3 LAN drivers.

(2) The maximum of 2.2 gigabytes of disk storage per file server, like
    many NetWare 286 maximums is the theoretical maximum.  There are many
    other factors that will affect this maximum.

(3) VAP = Value Added Process, a program which runs in the NetWare file server
    itself using the file servers resources.  Many third party programs for 
    NetWare are implemented as VAPs.

(4) You will need to acquire the necessary boot PROMs to support remote boot
    of your workstations, these are not provided by Novell as part of NetWare.