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Appware Programming Primer: A Guide to Constructing Applications

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This is one of the books in the history of computing section of my library. AppWare was similar to Visual Basic in that it was based on a graphical language and was laid out so that applications could be assembled quickly by people who had a minimal knowledge of programming. In fact, unsuccessful competition with Visual Basic and with Microsoft in general is a great part of what killed it off. As Novell began to lose market share in the communications software industry, it decided that Appware was one of those products it could afford to throw overboard. It was sold for a time by a different company under the name "Micro Brew", but it was never adequately supported or expanded for the changing market and ultimately ceased to exist.

For programmers, this book is a guide for using AppWare's Visual AppBuilder to develop network applications. AppBuilder allowed pre-made, network-aware objects to be linked together, eliminating the need to code. This book showed programmers how to use AppWare's Visual AppBuilder to develop network applications. The disk provides preassembled applications which can be used alone or in other projects. It also contains files that complement the building of the application described in the book.

I still keep the book around as a computing history book because it recalls a brief time when Novell owned the network computing business until they were eclipsed in that business by Microsoft in the mid 90's - an event from which they never recovered and which greatly degraded the value of the Novell CNE certifications which in 1995 were passports to tech employment.