22 Jul 14 12:15, Benny Pedersen wrote to BjЎrn Felten:
BF>> What happened in 3.11 was TCP/IP.
BP> wholy shit, was it not possible to make it in dos, was win3 really BP> needed ?
Well, sort of... There were TCP/IP stacks for DOS, but they took an incredibly large amount of "lower" memory. I was using DesqView for multitasking under DOS back then, and mailers like BinkleyTerm needed quite a lot of lower memory to run, too. Thus, I know no-one who ran a DOS-based system for FTN back then and used TCP/IP for networking. Most people used Novell (either Netware or NovelLite) or Lantastic on DOS clients back then.
Regards, Gerrit
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