On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:03 AM, James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mark wrote: >> >> All flavors of Windows since 3.11 came with telnet pre-installed. My >> Psion Series 5 (circa 1997) had telnet out of the box, and it >> certainly doesn't have anything like the storage or any other >> resources the ITs have. >> >> > > Are you sure it was in Windows 3.11? That was before MS embraced the > internet, with W95. > Yes, I'm certain. It was used with a little application called simply "terminal". I used it constantly with bulletin boards before the proliferation of ISPs and the Web, and even after I had a "real" ISP to access my email. That same application was available in Win9x/ME, and the NT/XP versions of Windows have all had command line telnet. Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
