Microsoft Online

Yes, Windows 95 was the first product to incorporate TCP/IP - and I remember the panic it caused. :-) I was on the MSN team and we were building an AX.25 network - but Bill Gates (quite correctly) saw that TCP/IP was going to quickly replace the telco-based POPs. We made the change to include TCP/IP "in the box" *in 1995*. We worked a lot.... -- Ian ________________________________________ From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Zane H. Healy [healyzh at aracnet.com] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 9:17 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Microsoft Online At 8:37 PM -0800 2/24/11, Glen Slick wrote: Seems likely that it was a client for some online service. Though I don't remember it. I was big into Prodigy at the time, but also had accounts on CompuServe & GEnie, as well as some Washington DC area BBS's. That's what people thought of back then when you said "online". It's old enough that it's unlikely it's anything even remotely TCP/IP related. In '91 as far as MS was concerned the Internet and TCP/IP didn't exist. In '92 it was *almost* impossible to find a commercial ISP. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Photographer | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | My flickr Photostream | | http://www.flickr.com/photos/33848088 at N03/ |