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The original version? Not even close. (: TCP/IP was a thing when the C64 came out, but it was one of many competing networking standards, and it wasn't even t
by Diederich 10y ago
The original version? Not even close. (:
TCP/IP was a thing when the C64 came out, but it was one of many competing networking standards, and it wasn't even the favorite to win.
- bduerst 10y agoFascinating - what was favored to win at the time?
- empath75 10y agoipx maybe?
- GordonS 10y agoIf I recall correctly, IPX and NetBUI? were the ones you saw most often back then
- Diederich 10y agoIPX and NetBIOS (which MSFT called NetBUI) were introduced after the C64 came out. I would say DECnet phase IV or IBM's SNA were the biggest contenders, along with X.25.
- eumoria 10y agowhatever happened to IPX
- skissane 10y agoIPX is a modification of the Xerox Network Systems (XNS). XNS is c. 1977 whereas the Commodore 64 was released in 1982. In the early 1980s, networking was such a young technology there was little commercial value in following standards. Even when you based your product on pre-existing technology (like Novell did), you changed it in incompatible ways. I think if Commodore had wanted to do a LAN, they probably would have built something proprietary similar to Acorn's Econet, which also ran on 6502 systems. But, I think the primary focus of Commodore was on the home market, and most people would only buy one microcomputer, and if they had two sharing floppies was sufficient as a LAN. Acorn by contrast was more focused on the education market, where the value of networking was much more obvious, and schools were willing to pay for it.