Subj : A rather general question
To   : Russell Tiedt
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Sat Jul 10 2004 01:06 pm

Russell Tiedt wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RT> Hello Roy.

 RT> 07 Jul 04 12:06, you wrote to me:

 RT>> I have a real vague recollection of running something called
 RT>> "Trumpet Winsock" on a 3.11 box to get on the 'net,  way back
 RT>> when...

 RT>> Would that be it?

 RT>> Yep! that is the animal, I remeber there where implimentations by
 RT>> 3 or so  different companies available. Cannot remember if a
 RT>> WIN3.11 for workgroups  required it.

 RT> Interesting.  I'll have to play with it some time,  and see what I can
 RT> get it to do.  Of course I haven't fired up w3.1 on this box since oh,
 RT> about 1996 or so,  and don't have a mouse attached,  but that's no big
 RT> deal...  :-)

 RT> Ran Lora BBS on WIN 3.11 WFW here for a short spell, worked fine,
 RT> for a  single line BBS.

 RT> Was much happier with OS/2, and have no plans to move on from Linux
 RT> real soon. :-)

I find myself spending most of my time there lately.  Last night I shut the 
stuff on this box down for a bit so I could load a LAN driver and ftp something 
over to the other box,  briefly,  and email it...    :-)

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