31 Jul
2013
31 Jul
'13
5:52 p.m.
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Liam Proven wrote:
Surely there is no possible DOS network stack that you
could fit into
16kB of RAM?
That would imply to me that either the NIC isn't original, or the
amount of RAM isn't.
Populating the open sockets is NOT "not original"
At the college, we had Orchid? AST? PC-NET? network, with 2 floppies and
full RAM added. We soon found that it took very little to bring "THE
NETWORK" to its knees, and that contrary to vendor claims, we were the
first to ever put more than 8 machines on that network setup.
We were not allowed to charge a "lab fee", so each student had to buy a
"MerrNet boot disk" from the school store.
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