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From: j_rodin@hpfcso.HP.COM (Jon Rodin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Lantastic <--> TCP/IP
Message-ID: <7260007@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Dec 90 14:50:38 GMT
References: <1990Dec13.170316.29748@groucho>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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>
>    Could someone please list some NETBIOS implementations (commerical
>    or otherwise) that use a "shared protocol driver" of some sort?
>    e.g. One which runs directly on top of Ethernet via a packet driver.
>    
>I believe there are only three hardware-independent (host resident)
>TCP/IP NETBIOSes for DOS: our PC/TCP, Wollongong's WIN/PC and Beame
>& Whiteside's BW-???.  All are available with one level or another of
>support for NDIS and the Packet Driver.
>
Hewlett-Packard has DOS TCP/IP which runs over NDIS, so it is hardware 
independent.  The HP package includes telnet (via BAPI/Int 14), sockets,
ftp, rsh an rcp.

Jon
j_rodin@cnd.hp.com
(303) 229-2474