4 Dec
2011
4 Dec
'11
7:44 p.m.
madodel wrote:
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? OS/2 Warp had dial up internet access for IBM's ISP as
well as a SLIP dialer for other ISPs, when released in 1994, but not a
full TCP/IP stack until Warp Connect in 1995. I assume Unix, Linux,
AppleOS or AmigaOS must have had this prior to that? I remember all
those damn AOL floppy disks for all the windows users. FORMAT A: was a
good use for them.
I used PPP (or it might have been SLIP) on Ultrix LONG before 1995. And
it also makes a difference as to what you mean by "internet access".
UUCP could fall into that criterion, and has been built-into certain
operating systems for a *very* long time.
Peace... Sridhar