23 Jul
2008
23 Jul
'08
11:24 a.m.
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 14:09, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 23 Jul 2008 at 10:24, Eric J Korpela wrote:
Depends on what you'd call an "Operating System", I suppose. WFWG
was built on DOS, couldn't run without it. Network support wasn't
"built in", by any means, but offered as a standard component of
WFWG.
NT 3.1 perhaps?
I've still got a system or two that run MSLANMAN--add TCP/IP support
and you've got one big memory hog, though, particularly on an 8088-
class system.
I found it much easier to load a crynwyr (sp?) driver for my card, and use
the ftp client from the NCSA telnet package. There was one other ftp client
I got later that turned out to be a good bit faster, but I don't recall how
that package was called, just ftp followed by some number...
Worked well on my BBS machine to get things into and out of it when the rest
of the LAN were boxes running linux, though I had to get out of desqview to
do that.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
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?
I'm fairly sure WfW had TCP/IP.