rather than a GUI, requiring admins to be proficient in console commands and menu-based utilities like NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs)
And you loved it.
Microsoft won the server war through integration, bundling, and the internet boom. But for a brief, golden period in the early 1990s, if you wanted a network that never broke, you bought NetWare 3.12. novell netware 3.12