Novell Embedded Systems Technology

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Novell Embedded Systems Technology (NEST) was a series of <a href="/facts/Application_programming_interface/GMlN4vUr">APIs</a>, data formats and <a href="/facts/Network_protocol_stack/Btj9FtwJ">network protocol stacks</a> written in a highly portable fashion intended to be used in <a href="/facts/Embedded_system/a4muX1wU">embedded systems</a>. The idea was to allow various small devices to access <a href="/facts/Novell/lABGMT7U">Novell</a> <a href="/facts/NetWare/cfnyxMzs">NetWare</a> services, provide such services, or use NetWare's <a href="/facts/IPX/TEGGak0E">IPX</a> protocol as a communications system (and later also <a href="/facts/TCP/IP/KNkxtSpw">TCP/IP</a>). Novell referred to this concept as "Extended Networks", and when the effort was launched they boasted that they wanted to see one billion devices connected to NetWare networks by year 2000. NEST was launched in mid-1994 countering <a href="/facts/Microsoft/nGIDDXdx">Microsoft</a>'s similar <a href="/facts/Microsoft_at_Work/0IGNPbPp">Microsoft at Work</a> efforts, which had been launched in 1993.
</p><p>Neither technology saw much third-party support, although some of NEST's code was apparently re-used in Novell Distributed Print Services (NDPS), and thus <a href="/facts/IPrint/3a3RGqCs">iPrint</a>.
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Novell Embedded Systems Technology