SuperSet
SuperSet Software was a group founded by the friends
Drew Major,
Dale Neibauer,
Kyle Powell and later
Mark Hurst. Their work was based on classwork that they started in October
1981 at
Brigham Young University, Provo
Utah.
In
1983,
Raymond Noorda from
Novell engaged the work by the SuperSet crew. The team, was originally was assigned to create a CP/M disk sharing system to help network the CP/M hardware that Novell was selling at the time. The team was privately convinced that CP/M was a doomed platform and instead came up with a successful file sharing system for the newly introduced IBM-compatible PC.
They also wrote an application called
Snipes, a text-mode game and used it to test the new network and demonstrate its capabilities. Along with
Spasim and
Maze War, Snipes was the precursor of many popular multi-player games such as
Doom and
Quake.[
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This
Network operating system was later called
Novell Netware. It has made a significant contribution to the success of Novell.
