Timeline for How did the AOL software provide internet access to other applications running on Windows 95/98?
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| Mar 12 at 21:57 | comment | added | mannaggia | @CaptainGiraffe Windows for Workgroups (WfWg) 3.11 had it's own TCP/IP stack and WINSOCK.DLL so it basically eliminated the need for any of the third party stacks like Trumpet. I developed network software in the 90's and prior to that it was really a hodge podge on Windows 3.x until WfWg and then later Windows 95. | |
| Mar 7 at 23:04 | comment | added | Captain Giraffe | Did Windows 3.11 (for networks) change anything substantial for TCP? | |
| Mar 7 at 8:26 | comment | added | slebetman | I remember those days. Windows wasn't the only OS that did not ship with TCP/IP. Unix almost always had TCP/IP since that was where it evolved but even then there was disagreement on how the API to use TCP/IP should be: sockets or streams. TCP/IP and sockets won. | |
| Mar 6 at 5:41 | comment | added | Stephen Kitt | See also How did Microsoft take over Winsocks? | |
| Mar 5 at 21:27 | history | answered | hobbs | CC BY-SA 4.0 |