Hi. Article author here. Re Snipes: I know of no earlier network-native app for the DOS PC. It's described on Wikipedia as "Snipes [aka 'NSnipes' for 'Network

Hi. Article author here. Re Snipes: I know of no earlier network-native app for the DOS PC. It's described on Wikipedia as "Snipes [aka 'NSnipes' for 'Network Snipes'] is the first network application ever written for a commercial personal computer" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWare A citation: https://web.archive.org/web/20160728221417/http://www.textmodegames.com/download/snipes.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160728221417/http://www.textmo... If you have a pointer to anything earlier, I'd welcome it, but after all this time I doubt my editors will change the article. :-) IPX/SPX was indeed based on XNS, as was Banyan's version, but it wasn't compatible with it. IPX was, I suspect, vastly more widely used than any other flavour of XNS ever. > No, we called it "TCP" Hey, it's a big planet, you know. You used 3 of the 5 letters, some others used the other 2 letters, or to make it easier, the words they stood for.