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#NT The REAL Truth

    07-May-95 21:16:29
Sb: #168599-#NT The REAL Truth
Fm: John Ellis 72440,3046
To: Don Landis 71673,3612
Don, >> I suppose I'll have quite a challenge ahead as most of my hardware is enhanced. << I'm not sure that that in and of itself will necessarily be a problem. NT does handle things like that. I'd need to know more to give you a definitive answer one way or other. SCSI controllers are a little different than IDE because they have their own BIOS. I would expect AMI Bios not to be a problem. FWIW, NT has been dealing with these issues for several years and has incorporated many features to accomodate extensions to DOS as a result. I'll upload the README.WRI file in ASCI text format and anyone who has any specific concerns can check it out. With regard to LAN 5.0 I think you've got a problem because unlike LAN 6.0 it doesn't incorporate Netbeui or IPX/SPX as a protocol. My suggestion would be to get Netware Lite. If you have Novell compatible network cards, you can use NT is a Server. Other than that you've got WFW which as you already mentioned will also work. Its uses Netbeui. You could also upgrade to LAN 6.0 and might be a better solution depending on how many machines you need to link. Like most things more detail would help. John