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On 9/29/2023 3:46 PM, gah4 wrote:
> On Friday, September 29, 2023 at 12:28:46 PM UTC-7, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
>>> But yes, both MS-DOS and MacOS had little support for Ethernet.
>>> There was NCSA Telnet, which connected directly to the Ethernet card,
>>> with no OS support. (That was free, government funded. There were
>>> some non-free versions around.)
>
>>> After not so long, MacOS had some support, and we ran a different
>>> NCSA Telnet. But also about then, Netscape 2.0, which was small
>>> enough to run on smaller Macintosh systems.
>
>> I would assume a lot of the people here ran PathWorks on DOS PC`s.
>
> I do remember that one. And like NCSA Telnet, had no OS support.
MS did not provide anything. Drivers from the NIC vendor. The rest from
DEC.
> But as noted previously, unless I forgot, you had to pay for that one.
Yes. If I remember correct then one bought a N user license for the
server on VMS and then one could use it on N PC`s.
> Otherwise, yes, it allowed for DECnet connections.
>
> I do remember having an account on an across the country MicroVAX
> reachable by DECnet but not TCP/IP. I had to use the numeric address,
> as the PC didn`t know it by name.
Same as IP - it is either name or number. Not 256 x 256 x 256 x 256 but
just 64 x 1024.
Arne
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