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What network were you on? I'm curious, I never had anything except dial-up (BBS) back in those days.
by biogene 3y ago
What network were you on? I'm curious, I never had anything except dial-up (BBS) back in those days.
- nine_k 3y agoNetWare, I suppose. IPX was big even under pure DOS.
- smackeyacky 3y agoIn that era you had to load the network drivers before windows, it was all DOS based. It wasn't until windows for workgroups that windows based networking was a thing.
- andrewstuart 3y agoNetware, I also worked with Microsoft's SMB and a few other lesser known things. 3Com something or other. There were some interesting network types around then too - unfortunately alot of coax networks (a disconnected cable would bring the whole network down), Banyan Vines, some IBM token ring which had some weird cables and connectors. Cat 5 networking came in not long after. Back then there were all sorts of protocols flying over the network. IPX/SPX, XNS mainly. The one protocol NOT present on our systems was TCP/IP.
- biogene 3y agoNice, must have been interesting to use such a variety of tech that people were still figuring out. Yeah, I got directly into TCP/IP with trumpet winsock. All the stuff prior was before my time (the stuff that I had access to anyway).