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Seems like the wrong choice to me too. I was running System V/386 at around that time, it wasn't very difficult to port X11 to a new platform but hard to add a

by rjsw 6y ago

Seems like the wrong choice to me too. I was running System V/386 at around that time, it wasn't very difficult to port X11 to a new platform but hard to add a network stack to a binary only operating system.

guenthert 6y ago
Very early Linux didn't have TCP/IP support either. People used (for a short time) KA9Q (http://www.ka9q.net/code/ka9qnos/ http://www.ka9q.net/code/ka9qnos/), which was also available for other OS. Anyone remember (the now glorified) Bill Gates claiming the Internet would just be a fad and announcing that Windows '95 would come w/o support for TCP/IP?