
Results of their occupations in Brigham Young University in the city Provo, the state Utah in October were the basis for this work 1981. The NetWare system was created as a result of SuperSet Software work - consulting the group based by friends Drew Meydzher Dale Naybauer, Kyle Powell and later entered into this group Mark Hirst. Cases when the NetWare servers work without intervention of the person for years are frequent. In spite of the fact that in early versions of NetWare all system modules were considered as unreliable (any incorrectly working module could break work of all system), it was very stable system. Users can be also connected to shared printers on a dedicated server and print on network printers as well as on local. Access to network resources is defined by a registration name.

Users need to be registered in network to get access to volumes and to have an opportunity to appoint letters of disks. On computers clients with the MS-DOS operating system several special resident programs which allow "appoint" letters of disks to volumes are started. Very simple idea was the basis for NetWare: one or several dedicated servers are connected to network and provide for sharing the disk space in the form of "volumes". Unlike these products and XNS, the NetWare system occupied an essential market share in the early nineties and sustained the competition to Microsoft Windows NT after which release other systems competing with it stopped the existence. For example, Banyan VINES and Ungerman-Bass Net/One belong to such systems. NetWare is one of families of XNS systems. Now NetWare supports the TCP/IP and IPX/SPX protocols.

The stack of the XNS protocols is the cornerstone of network protocols of a system. NetWare is the closed operating system using cooperative multitasking for accomplishment of different services on computers with architecture of Intel x86. The NetWare operating system is created by Novell company. NetWare is network operating system and a set of network protocols which are used in this system for interaction with the computers clients connected to network.
