24 Feb
2011
24 Feb
'11
7:46 p.m.
OK, does anyone know what this is??
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140474798391
Google fails me on this, other than to find that a guy once wrote a
manual for it.
My (uninformed) guess is that it's an early TCP/IP stack for Windows 3.x.
I'm almost tempted to buy it to find out, were it not for the Canadian shipping.
--
jht
24 Feb
24 Feb
8:37 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Jason T <silent700 at gmail.com> wrote:
OK, does anyone know what this is??
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140474798391
Google fails me on this, other than to find that a guy once wrote a
manual for it.
My (uninformed) guess is that it's an early TCP/IP stack for Windows 3.x.
I have a vague recollection that it was something like a BBS client
sort of thing, something like CompuServe CIM of the same era.
If it is the thing I am thinking it was, one use of it at the time was
to post questions to Microsoft product support engineers.
-Glen
9:17 p.m.
At 8:37 PM -0800 2/24/11, Glen Slick wrote:
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Jason T <silent700
at gmail.com> 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
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OK, does anyone know what this is??
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140474798391
Google fails me on this, other than to find that a guy once wrote a
manual for it.
My (uninformed) guess is that it's an early TCP/IP stack for Windows 3.x.
I have a vague recollection that it was something like a BBS client
sort of thing, something like CompuServe CIM of the same era.
If it is the thing I am thinking it was, one use of it at the time was
to post questions to Microsoft product support engineers.
-Glen 
25 Feb
25 Feb
12:04 a.m.
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:
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Jason T <silent700
at gmail.com> 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/ |
OK, does anyone know what this is??
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140474798391
Google fails me on this, other than to find that a guy once wrote a
manual for it.
My (uninformed) guess is that it's an early TCP/IP stack for Windows 3.x.
I have a vague recollection that it was something like a BBS client
sort of thing, something like CompuServe CIM of the same era.
If it is the thing I am thinking it was, one use of it at the time was
to post questions to Microsoft product support engineers.
-Glen 
26 Feb
26 Feb
10:14 a.m.
Not familiar with Microsoft Online... but the TCP/IP stack IIRC for
Windows (might only be for W4WG) was called Wolverine (which might
might be the project name) and was a free download from MS.
I had a cd burning system (with Phillips CDD-521) running W4WG with
Wolverine. Who knows if Wolverine is still available for download from
MS though.
-- Curt
Glen Slick wrote:
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Jason T <silent700
at gmail.com> wrote:
OK, does anyone know what this is??
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140474798391
Google fails me on this, other than to find that a guy once wrote a
manual for it.
My (uninformed) guess is that it's an early TCP/IP stack for Windows 3.x.
I have a vague recollection that it was something like a BBS client
sort of thing, something like CompuServe CIM of the same era.
If it is the thing I am thinking it was, one use of it at the time was
to post questions to Microsoft product support engineers.
-Glen
12:38 p.m.
On 2/26/11 10:14 AM, "Curtis H. Wilbar Jr." <rescue at hawkmountain.net>
wrote:
Not familiar with Microsoft Online... but the TCP/IP stack IIRC for
Windows (might only be for W4WG) was called Wolverine (which might
might be the project name) and was a free download from MS.
I had a cd burning system (with Phillips CDD-521) running W4WG with
Wolverine. Who knows if Wolverine is still available for download from
MS though.
-- Curt
Glen Slick wrote:
Don't think so, but there is woofwoof 3.2 available which IIRC had the
TCP/IP stack in it....
2:09 p.m.
You mean this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/111682
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoffrey Reed" <geoffr at zipcon.net>
To: "cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: Microsoft Online
On 2/26/11 10:14 AM, "Curtis H. Wilbar Jr." <rescue at hawkmountain.net>
wrote:
Not familiar with Microsoft Online... but the TCP/IP stack IIRC for
Windows (might only be for W4WG) was called Wolverine (which might
might be the project name) and was a free download from MS.
I had a cd burning system (with Phillips CDD-521) running W4WG with
Wolverine. Who knows if Wolverine is still available for download from
MS though.
-- Curt
Glen Slick wrote:
Don't think so, but there is woofwoof 3.2 available which IIRC had the
TCP/IP stack in it....
7:31 p.m.
I believe that is it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x
mentions and indicates that Wolverine was the project name. It is
termed an "add-on
package", so maybe Microsoft never gave it a "product" name. Wolverine
was the
code name.
It worked fine for my 10Mbit LAN at the time :-)
-- Curt
Teo Zenios wrote:
You mean this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/111682
----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoffrey Reed" <geoffr at
zipcon.net>
To: "cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: Microsoft Online
On 2/26/11 10:14 AM, "Curtis H. Wilbar Jr." <rescue at hawkmountain.net>
wrote:
Not familiar with Microsoft Online... but the TCP/IP stack IIRC for
Windows (might only be for W4WG) was called Wolverine (which might
might be the project name) and was a free download from MS.
I had a cd burning system (with Phillips CDD-521) running W4WG with
Wolverine. Who knows if Wolverine is still available for download from
MS though.
-- Curt
Glen Slick wrote:
Don't think so, but there is woofwoof 3.2 available which IIRC had the
TCP/IP stack in it....
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