Re: Where is telnet?

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On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:03 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.

Windows 3.1 had no TCP/IP stack whatsoever. People used to install
"Trumpet Winsock" to get on-line.

Back then the first x86 desktop OS to be released which included a
TCP/IP stack and web browser was IBM OS/2 Warp 3.0, released in 1994.

FC
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