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It left me so stoked to see IPX mentioned in the first paragraph... And disappointed to not see it mentioned in any of the comments. The native support in man
by thebeardisred 7y ago
It left me so stoked to see IPX mentioned in the first paragraph...
And disappointed to not see it mentioned in any of the comments.
The native support in many DOS applications and ease of configuration was a dream. As a kid setting up LAN games he nailed it with the header "The childhood magic".
edit: Fixed spelling mistake
- jimmySixDOF 7y agoAgreed - IPX & Netware were way ahead of anyone else until years after MS released Active Directory. I actually started out working working with IBM using Token Ring and installing Magde NIC Cards. These days with NFV/SDN/Etc the "Network" is more a spaghetti of virtual circuits. Try drawing a diagram of east-west pod traffic using VMWare NSX/vSANs in a hyperconverged ACI overlay environment and you will run out of ink !
- mixmastamyk 7y agoStill sorta remember my startnet.bat from '94ish: lsl 3c50{3,5,9} ipxodi netx rem Somthing about F: drive goes here rem Then login There was no fiddling with network or node addresses. I think networks were somehow configured thru the Netware server, but can't remember.