Mark wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > Not quite right. I had "Windows for Workgroups", version 3.11 (as > opposed to 3.1), which was obviously intended for network/Internet use > and had additional components. I didn't have to install anything extra > beyond the Workgroup extras. I do recall later having to do some > troubleshooting that involved delving into Trumpet Winsock, but that > was long after I was online. Windows 3.0 had no winsock out of the > box, but it was available. > IIRC, Windows for Workgroups included NetBIOS networking, which was the default networking for Windows, DOS & OS/2. IP support came with Windows 95, as initially Microsoft didn't think the internet would amount to much. Do not confuse networking with IP support. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
