On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> wrote: I remember that transition. In 1994 and early 1995, I installed Trumpet Winsock on a lot of Windows 3.1 machines. Unfortunately, even up to the August release of Win95, the typical desktop for our users was (admittedly obsolete by that time) a 386SX16 (Dell 316 or some variety of Compaq box) with 2MB of RAM, no hard disk, a 10Mbit Ethernet card, and booting off of a floppy to attach to a Novell Netware server to load apps (Lotus 1-2-3, Word Perfect, e-mail (DaVinci!), etc). The Novell servers, handling hundreds of users each, were high-end Compaq 486 boxes with up to 64MB of memory and a gig or two of disk. If you were blessed by the Network Engineer, your login could be permitted to load the seat-license-locked TCP stack for DOS/Novell and use Telnet and FTP. I had a lot more fun in the science lab where the standard machine was a Mac IIci or one of the SPARCstations (which had TCP/IP set up by default). But thank you, Ian, for your work. I did enjoy setting up TCP/IP out of the box when Win95 came out, vs having to go get bits and have grudging support from our Network guys about getting addresses, etc. (they used to be *very* stingy with assigning out blocks of IP addresses before the days of NAT Firewalls and private address space - the proliferation of TCP/IP to every desk pushed that change). -ethan