13 Sep
2016
13 Sep
'16
6:08 p.m.
On 09/13/2016 04:45 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
Did CP/M-86 have networking? I remember it being an
expensive, fiddly
add-on for CDOS years later, and not very flexible then. I don't think
the UCSD p-System networked at all, and DOS didn't for a long time.
Only after the advent of WfWg did MS offer a free network stack for
DOS as standard, and even to this day it's not wildly enthusiastic
about TCP/IP, although it will do it. If you used Novell Netware Lite
or P2P Netware, you got IPX; Pathworks, DECnet; Farallon, AppleTalk;
etc.
CP/Net. I don't know if Novell ever deployed their RS-422 networking
with CP/M-86 however.
There were networking packages for the PC early on. Remember Banyan?
They date from 1985. Corvus? Even Datapoint had an ARCnet facility for
PCs in 1984. Quite a few vendors had 802.3 capability. Networking,
however disorganized, was a very hot thing by 1987.
--Chuck