25 Feb
2011
25 Feb
'11
11:38 a.m.
On 2011 Feb 25, at 10:50 AM, Shoppa, Tim wrote:
Yes, IME that was a/the standard going back to pre-1985. In a sense,
http/www is the only thing new since then, everything else has been
'more of the same', minus the distraction of proprietary protocols.
> I was on
the MSN team and we were building an AX.25 network
Have you read "Barbarians Led by Bill
Gates" ?
What a mess. Apple was no better, though (eWorld, etc.) I don't
remember much push for broadband as mentioned in "Barbarians"
I came from the academic side where Ethernet networking had been
standard for some time by the mid-90's and getting networks of VAXen
and Suns to interoperate was a breeze. In contrast the mid-90's era focus by consumer
OS's (read that as
"Windows and bolt on products") on the modem as the lynchpin in
networking, was simply bizarre to me.
By that time on PC-clones with MS-DOS we had been using the NCSA stack
for Telnet and FTP and all the other good stuff, for many years.
Completely stable and just worked. I was especially fond of a simple
configuration of MS-DOS Kermit.
I was completely stumped by Windows 95 networking and Trumpet Winsock.
They made it a zillion times harder. To this day whenever I have to
configure Windows networking and am forced to click on all the
variations of "No I don't have an ISP but I can still connect to the
internet" I still become enraged.