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Microsoft pretty much had an anti internet strategic policy until 1995, that’s why. Back in the day a tcpip stack was a third party add on.
by toopsss 8y ago
Microsoft pretty much had an anti internet strategic policy until 1995, that’s why. Back in the day a tcpip stack was a third party add on.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- notyourday 8y agoMicrosoft got lots of its address space by buying Nortel assets.
- outworlder 8y agoTrumpet Winsock?
- astrodust 8y agoConsider that when Trumpet Winsock was a third-party IP add-on for Windows 3.1, classic MacOS already had IP support built-in. Ironically around that time Microsoft was selling Xenix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix) which did support it.
- kalleboo 8y agoOriginally Apple's MacTCP was actually a product they sold separately, it wasn't bundled into the OS until 1994. Although it was usually easy to get a hold of a copy since universities and such had site licenses, and ISPs often had redistribution licenses
- astrodust 8y agoAh, it was introduced in System 7.5 which, perhaps coincidentally, was the first version of MacOS I had when I needed to connect it over TCP/IP.