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From: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
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Subject: Re: Question: TCP/IP implementation for OS/2
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Date: 16 May 89 12:32:32 GMT
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I know of 3 active development efforts, none of which, as far as I know, have
resulted in visible code (demoed at a show, or somewhere where someone posted
about it) yet:

Microsoft has been moving Excelan's EXOS board-resident TCP/IP into the OS/2
kernel, pretty much according to the book (NDIS spec v1.0.1) as I've heard it.
The initial goal is likely to be LAN Manager NETBIOS transport, instead of the
Internet applications.  I would also assume that the applications, when they
appear, are quite likely to use the Presentation Manager.

HP and 3Com have announced that they are collaborating on a TCP/IP.  I don't
know whose stack they started with, or how it is structured, or when it will be
ready, or what it will contain.

We're porting PC/TCP to OS/2.  Once we finish, it will have everything DOS
PC/TCP has, except the NFS protocol (unless Microsoft relents, and makes the
redirector interface public, so you aren't stuck with SMB only).  We're much
more interested in the Internet applications than LAN Manager NETBIOS, but
that is in the pipleline, too.  The first release probably won't use the PM.
When?  I wish I knew.  We're sending packets, but there is a lot of work left
to do.  We'll know more in a few months.

In addition, there was a posting a month or two ago from a European site where
someone said they had "ported the IBM DOS TCP/IP that comes with FAL to OS/2".
He gave no details, and hasn't posted again; my first guess is that he got it
to run in the compatibility box, but who knows...

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