by kencausey on 10/10/24, 5:46 AM with 21 comments
by blantonl on 10/10/24, 12:57 PM
I ended up taking a job with IBM supporting the TCP/IP stack on top of OS/2. It was a 24 year old me, and a grey beard 60 year old dude that literally supported the entire OS/2 Lan Server TCP/IP stack across the world during the time that corporate networks were just beginning to connect to the Internet. Everyone else on the OS/2 support team at IBM just punted to us anything that was TCP/IP related and thought we were wizards or something. What a wild time to be alive.
by pavlov on 10/10/24, 8:22 AM
I wonder if there is literally anyone else in the world who has this problem in 2024.
Jokes aside, I appreciate the detailed work that OS/2 Museum does. From a developer’s point of view it often feels like everything is a Unix nowadays, so it’s easy to forget that the PC revolution’s mainstream came from very different commercial origins and gradually blended with the more “academic” tech like TCP/IP.
by ay on 10/10/24, 11:16 AM
NetBEUI (the original MS networking, running directly over Ethernet rather than TCP/IP), was using LLC-2 Ethernet frames, and as such it was a great way to test DLSw (data link switching) in a very simple lab (two windows 95 machines, separated by two routers, connected via IP link).
Why was that ever a thing? Because of
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-basic-skills?topic=llc2-how-...
And most of IBM networking used Token Ring rather than Ethernet, which was harder to get hold of and more expensive.
by roydivision on 10/11/24, 7:20 AM