12 Jul
2011
12 Jul
'11
11:08 p.m.
The multimonitor thing for DOOM was pretty sweet.... And it'd let you look around
corners.
If you had a room full of 486's it was the neatest thing ever!
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
On 12 Jul 2011, at 20:40, Jason Stevens wrote:
Oddly enough our VAX's actually had some netware
thing. I wish I'd managed to make copies of the tapes, but we did have Netware for
VAX/VMS.
IT's probably for the better that you didn't. Being a bit on the young side I was
doing LANs just as IPX/SPX and NetWare and suchlike were fading away. I remember setting
up an IPX network to play DooM - my first ever LAN game wit ha friend of mine - and all
the contact I had with Netware via education services etc was pretty nasty and proved to
hurt more than it helped anything, but I was too young to understand bigger pictures at
the time.
It wasn't until 95 with Microsoft including TCP/IP
into the consumer OS did it really start to matter.
Yes I do remember the days when Windows 3.11 had Winsock to provide a separate TCP stack.
We used it and SLIP to dial up to our ISP back then. We had to keep a Windows 3.1 box on
the modem for quite a while until we worked out how to build SLIP dialup scripts for
Windows 95.
Sometimes I swear I was born 10 years too late :(
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