Special Edition Using Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 4.0

Using Novell Real-Mode Clients

Microsoft's NDS service for the Windows 95 Client for NetWare Networks and Novell's Client32 for Windows 95 both provide NDS access while retaining the advantages of a 32-bit protected-mode client. Both of these alternatives are considered later in this chapter.

Although there are other reasons to continue using the Novell real-mode clients, none of them have anything to do with performance. The real-mode clients are slower in every way than their protected-mode counterparts. They are also subject to the same conventional memory utilization problems as they were with Windows 3.1. It may be necessary, even with Windows 95, to implement a full memory management regimen, using the standard tools— EMM386.EXE, or a third-party ...