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From: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 TCP/IP, anyone?
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Date: 18 Jun 88 00:45:55 GMT
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The "facts" that I've heard are:  There is nothing commercial available right
now for OS/2.  The LAN manager is designed for a NETBIOS/SMB type interface,
so using its redirector for NFS will be non-trivial.  Microsoft and Excelan
have announced that they are going to provide an OS/2-resident TCP/IP protocol
stack for OS/2 to LAN Manager OEMs sometime.

The "rumor" I've heard is that the Microsoft/Excelan effort isn't scheduled
to see the light of day until 4th quarter.  I don't know what the freeware
people are up to, but since OS/2 won't boot with less than 2Meg, and IBM's
complete C development environment costs well over $1k (don't flame me,
argue with Charles Petzold in the 6/14 issue of PC Magazine), it may be a
while....

jbvb