Chapter 8. A Little Background on SMB
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From: Steven French, Senior Software Engineer, IBM To: Chris Hertel Chris, Hope things are going well in the cold north... I thought the following info would be interesting to you. I met the original "inventor" of SMB a few years ago - Dr. Barry Feigenbaum - who back in the early 80's was working on network software architecture for the infant IBM PCs, working for IBM in the Boca Raton plant in Florida. He mentioned that it was first called the "BAF" protocol (after his initials) but he later changed it to SMB. In the early DOS years IBM and Microsoft (with ...
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