NetWare Loadable Module

A NetWare Loadable Module (NLM) is a binary code module that can be loaded into Novell's NetWare operating system for execution. NLMs were supported beginning with the Intel 80386-based NetWare version 3.x. Prior versions of NetWare had a monolithic kernel, and significant hardware or functionality changes required re-linking the kernel from object modules. Due to stability issues with early third-party NLMs, they never became popular for server ... more

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  • NetWare Loadable Module
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