[3] SuperSet Software was a group founded by friends and former Eyring Research Institute (ERI) co-workers Drew Major, Dale Neibaur, Kyle Powell, and later joined by Mark Hurst.

The team was originally assigned to create a CP/M disk sharing system to help network the CP/M hardware that Novell was selling at the time.

Under Ray Noorda's leadership, the group developed a successful file sharing system for the newly introduced IBM-compatible PC.

[1][3] The group also wrote a text-mode game called Snipes and used it to test the new network and demonstrate its capabilities.

[4] Major joined Novell in 1983, and his partners Kyle Powell, Dale Neibaur, and Mark Hurst began to work in enabling PCs to share files and other resources via a local area network (LAN).