Chapter 1. A Short Bio of NetBIOS
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It all started back in the frontier days of the PC when Microsoft was a lot smaller, IBM seemed a whole lot bigger, and Apple owned personal computer territory as far as the eye could see. Back then, you didn’t need no dang standards. If you wanted to sell LANs, you just went out and branded yourself a protocol. Apple had AppleTalk, Digital had DECnet, and, for their longhorn mainframes, IBM had Systems Network Architecture (SNA). SNA was a mighty big horse for little PCs, so IBM hired on a company called Sytec and together they rustled up a product they called “PC Network.” Not an inspiring name, but it was a simpler ...
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