Re: TCP/IP for Windows for Workgroups 3.11

"Conor" <conor.turton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d7ecc547650e32298a99c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <slrndh6t93.2tc.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Marcus Houlden
> says...
>> More of an exercise than anything else. My brother has an ancient Toshiba
>> notebook (too old to be a Satellite) running DOS 6.22 and WfWG 3.11.
>> Networking on it (through Windows setup) is limited to Banyan Vines,
>> Netware, and MS Networking. What kind of options would there be if we
>> decided we wanted it to get on the net via TCP/IP? I know I'd need some
>> kind
>> of TCP stack, and I know Trumpet winsock is one of them, but what other
>> choices are there?
>>
> Typically support for this was in software suites. Demon brought out
> Turnpike for example.

Mmm. I'm trying to remember what TCP stack I had at ICL on my Windows 3 and
3.11 PCs before Windows 95. I certainly remember Trumpet Winsock but I think
there were others. WFW would have had some native networking built in. Did
MS Networking have any hooks at TCP level as well as at NetBIOS/SMB level
for browsers (Mosaic) to use?

I wonder how modern web sites will display on the sort of browser that will
be available for WFW, given that most sites will be geared at IE 5 or
greater (or compatible versions of Netscape Mozilla etc).

I remember at ICL we spent a lot of time developing OSI ("OSLAN") stacks for
general PC to UNIX server comms over NetBIOS and SMB (to a "Windows NT
server look-alike on a UNIX box" product), which rather died a death with
the growth of web browsers which would only work over TCP. I've vague
memories of loading OSLAN 386 (Windows drivers), TCP (DOS mode) and NetBEUI
(DOS mode) on a PC, with much juggling of HIMEM.SYS and LOADHIGH lines in
autoxec.bat and config.sys, in order to do comparative speed tests to
servers running each of the three stacks. I'd forgotten the joys of juggling
with himem and loadhigh to find ways of leaving as much free base memory as
possible. Those were the days...


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