Re: NT was written before the Internet says security expert

From: FyRE (FyRE_at_toktik.demon.ku.oc.x)
Date: 03/08/04


Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 00:32:35 +0000

On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 20:15:01 GMT, bv@wjv.comREMOVE (Bill Vermillion)
wrote:

[...]

>And Windows 95 was NOT designed to let users connect to other
>systems EXCEPT the internal Netbios. To get on the 'net you had
>to get a 3rd party stack for TCP/IP - ask anyone who remember
>getting 'trumpet'.

I remember Trumpet Winsock ;-) Installed it after playing with my own
TCP/IP stack for a year or so. It was the only reason I ever started
up WFW on my old 486...

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