Linux and growth of Internet

[Pete Turnbull]

On Jan 16 2005,  7:40, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> The MS TCP/IP stack works surprisingly well.  The setup program is
easy to
> use and fairly powerful, and the accessibility you get on a DOS box
is
> really good.  It has support for a number of NICs (including the
generic
> NE1000 and NE2000).  And most of the modules can be loaded high,
saving
> your main memory for applications.  I can mount WinXP drives on my
lowly
> DOS box would full read/write access.  You don't get long filenames,
of
> course, but you can still access any file because of the "stem" that
MS
> puts in the filesystem to convert long names to 8.3.

Yes, that's pretty much how I set it up, except I don't publish shares
on Windows machines; I use samba instead.  The MS client does
everything I want to do with DOS, and you can upgrade the support for
NICs by adding drivers, too.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York