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From: bhansen@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Barry Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Q: can LM/x and pc/tcp share tcp/ip stack?
Message-ID: <16640002@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 17:55:09 GMT
References: <1991Feb4.120459.15972@ulrik.uio.no>
Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
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> I had been thinking along similar lines but in a different way.
> Lan Manager is a NetbIos application. PC/TCP supply a NetbIos for their
> kernel. It would seem simplest to throw away the HP NetBios over TCP
> and use only FTPs stack. If you dont do this you will end up with 2 tcp
> ip stacks in your PC - mucho memory cost.


Maybe its just that I work for HP (and happen to be one of the developers
of HP's TCP/IP NetBIOS) but why not just get HP's ARPA 2.0 package?  It provides
the standard UNIX connectivity utilities and runs on the same TCP stack
as does HP's LAN Manager.

Barry Hansen