"John Rumm" wrote in message
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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.

You got something right for change. How that MS Windows/DOS crap ever made
it is mystery. MSWindows/DOS and TCP/IP deserve each other.