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The one live CD I had, I tried to boot it and it said something about being unable to locate the file server. I don't know if that was particular to this version, but that's all it would do - I could never get past that prompt. Admittedly, I haven't tried it for years, but again - it didn't do anything for me that other OSes didn't already cover, and it's been abandonware for so long now it's not of any use other than a historical curiosity. By the time Lucent got around to releasing it open source, the time had passed and Win2000 was looking at WinXP, and OS X 1.0 was on the horizon to replace the Crashy McCrasherson mess that was System $number on Mac.

I believe this system was primarily designed for a local system where you'd have desktops talking to a mainframe over some sort of system - ARCNET or Datakit, or the newly minted 10BaseT Ethernet that was cheap enough for consumer use. Lucent was still using ARCNET in the mid-90s when I left in 2001. It was on the TDMA microcells for the most part, I can't remember if the CDMA line used it or not.