Linux and growth of Internet - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Jan 2005

On Jan 16 2005,  7:40, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
...
  The MS TCP/IP stack works surprisingly well.  The
setup program is easy to
...
  use and fairly powerful, and the accessibility you get
on a DOS box is
...
  really good.  It has support for a number of NICs
(including the generic
...
  NE1000 and NE2000).  And most of the modules can be
loaded high, saving
...
  your main memory for applications.  I can mount WinXP
drives on my lowly
...
  DOS box would full read/write access.  You don't
get long filenames, of
...
  course, but you can still access any file because of
the "stem" that MS
...
  puts in the filesystem to convert long names to 8.3.

Yes, that's pretty much how I set it up, except I don't publish shares
on Windows machines; I use samba instead.  The MS client does
everything I want to do with DOS, and you can upgrade the support for
NICs by adding drivers, too.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York