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Re: Microsoft's "Jihad" Against Its Rivals

Erik Funkenbusch wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:01:30 -0400, Linonut wrote:
> 
>> * Erik Funkenbusch peremptorily fired off this memo:
>> 
>>> Wow, a semi-original bit of prose from Roy.  I'm amazed.  Of course it's
>>> full of inaccuracies, mistruths, and outright lies.. but at least he's
>>> moved on to creating new content.
>>>
>>> On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:45:25 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> Microsoft held out pretty long in not
>>>> accepting the tcp/ip networking protocol of the Internet. When the
>>>> Internet took off without them, they were simply forced to follow.
>>>
>>> Microsoft included TCP/IP in the first version of Windows NT, in 1993.
>>> Novell, Microsoft's leading networking competitor didn't include TCP/IP
>>> until significantly later.  What's more, Microsoft released a TCP/IP
>>> stack
>>> for Windows 3.x in 1992 based on the same stack.  This was several years
>>> before "the internet took off".
>> 
>> Actually, UNIX was there wayyyyyyyyy before Microsoft.
>> 
>> Nice try, Erik.
> 
> What the hell are you talking about?  I didn't say Unix didn't come much
> earlier.  I was rebuffing Roy's comment that Microsoft didn't include
> TCP/IP until after the internet "took off".
> 
> Microsoft was standardizing on TCP/IP several years before that.

Yup. That *must* be the reason TCP/IP was *not* the default stack in Win95

Nice try, Erik. 

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