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IPX 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
by Diederich 10y ago
IPX 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.