Andy Hall wrote:

Companies like REtix had off the shelf OSI stacks for ethernet, token
ring, token bus, for UNIX boxes and PCs runing Windows too (well DOS
then was doing the work).


All of which is irrelevant because it never went anywhere.

Not only that, but the DOS implimentations of the stacks at the time
were to all intents and purposes unusable anyway due to their massive
memory footprint. With the stack loaded there was not enough left to run
most of the major applications of the day.


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Cheers,

John.

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