Subj : Re: ipx
To   : Darren Gibbs
From : Tom Laermans
Date : Wed Aug 02 2000 07:22 am

Hi Darren ...

At 01-Aug-00 07:38:50, Darren Gibbs wrote to Tom Laermans about Re: ipx...

 TL>> Huh? I have had Win3x running without anything else than just
 TL>> some ipX drivers from the windoze disks.
 DG> Are you certain it's Win 3.x and not Windows for Workgroups? 3.x
Yes. Plain Windows 3.1. (I had WFW 3.11 later, but first had Compaq's
Win31)

 DG> came with _no_ networking support at all - especially not for
Ooh yes it did... (Mine did, it's true 3.1)

 DG> Novell. How do you think the authors of Trumpet Winsock got rich?
By adding a TCP/IP+Winsock stack for dialup.

 DG> Putting in a way for 3.x to access the internet
It already could with a new TCP/IP driver from Microsoft (only for LANs) or
by using IE 16-bit dialer...

 DG> Win 3.x still needed parts of the Novell package. W4W didn't - but
Really? :)

 DG> even when they were included with the WindoZe disks, they were
 DG> directly licensed from Novell - IPX is Novell's proprietry
 DG> protocol, and you simply can;t write a driver for it without
 DG> asking them first
Okay, but you don't need to buy/download it anymore :)

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