23 Jul
2008
23 Jul
'08
10:41 a.m.
2008/7/23 Eric J Korpela <korpela at ssl.berkeley.edu>:
Optional extra, downloaded from MS, for 3.1. Built in to 3.11 but only
a 16-bit DOS stack; the 32-bit protect-mode stack came later. Only ran
over LANs, couldn't do dialup; IE included its own dialup stack
licences in from Shiva.
And what was
the first operating system to have builtin support for internet
access? Did Windows for Workgroups have this or was that just LAN
networking?
I'm fairly sure WfW had TCP/IP. Unix and Linux, yes. MacOS didn't have built in
TCP/IP until MacOS 8
in 1997.
OpenTransport came in with MacOS 7.6, I think in '96 or so. Before
that, 7.5 came with MacTCP, which was available back to System 6. I
have a Classic II running it.
Trying to tie a Mac into a TCP/IP over Ethernet
network used to be an exercise in frustration. Here at the lab in the
late 80s we used to localtalk the Macs together and have a single
localtalk to TCP/IP over Ethernet gateway. It was slow, but it worked
and didn't require as much setup and software on each individual Mac.
I used to get it working without too much trouble. IPX for Novell, too.
I assume that AmigaOS was essentially static in the
mid90s. The late
80s versions had no networking included that I'm aware of.
3.5 and 3.9 came with bundled 3rd party stacks, I believe. Dialup only, though.
At least for a PC under DOS, free packet drivers with
TCP/IP were
available even if it wasn't included with the OS.
The MS Workgroup Client did TCP/IP and was a free download and bundled
on the CD with NT Server from 3.1, the first version, in 1993. I still
use it today for Ghosting PCs.
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