[Info-vax] Reading Gordon Bell's VAX strategy document

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/29/2023 3:03 PM, gah4 wrote:
> On Friday, September 29, 2023 at 5:24:53 AM UTC-7, Neil Rieck wrote:
>> 7) I knew a lot of people who were running third party stacks on
>> their Windows and Macintosh systems between 1994 and 1998. At that
>> time network communication interfaces all cost a lot of money, so
>> most newbies were asking questions like "how can I be using this
>> internet stack for free?" My answer was always "anything developed
>> by the US tax payer is usually placed into the public domain".
> 
> It was just about then, that NIC prices came down to really
> affordable prices.
> 
> I was about then working on school networking projects, where we
> really could put Ethernet into a school.
> 
> But yes, both MS-DOS and MacOS had little support for Ethernet.
> There was NCSA Telnet, which connected directly to the Ethernet card,
> with no OS support.  (That was free, government funded.  There were
> some non-free versions around.)
> 
> After not so long, MacOS had some support, and we ran a different
> NCSA Telnet. But also about then, Netscape 2.0, which was small
> enough to run on smaller Macintosh systems.

I would assume a lot of the people here ran PathWorks on DOS PC's.

Arne