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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (20971)9/14/1998 3:57:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 24154
 
The whole revisionist history thing is odd, Chaz. I don't know who is supposed to be taken in by it, maybe the D.C. Appeals Court. Even if it were true, it seems irrelevant enough. Poor Slivka has to reconcile the previous "official" BW history with the current version. I just thought it interesting that there was TCP/IP development back then, even if primarily at the LAN level. I still haven't seen a date for when Microsoft actually shipped a Win3x Winsock TCP/IP. No idea, I'd guess around the time they started shipping a win3x IE.

I was more interested in rudedog's OS/2 history anyway. Was Microsoft really that uninvolved in OS/2 development? Having never used it, I know just bits and snatches of history from secondary source. You thought OS/2 had some pretty good stuff in it, didn't you? I guess I should do a Web search.

Cheers, Dan.



To: Charles Hughes who wrote (20971)9/14/1998 6:38:00 PM
From: rudedog  Respond to of 24154
 
Chaz -
You are exactly right on the early emphasis - it was TCP/IP for WANs, so it could be routed, and what little support there was came from IBM, with reluctant MSFT participation. I personally did not hear any discussion of Internet among MSFT people until 1994.