MS Network and DOS - was - Source of nifty switches?
J Blaser
oldcpu at rogerwilco.org
Mon Jul 24 16:28:47 CDT 2006
> From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
>
> Actually, it's pretty amazing how an 8088 at 8MHz is entirely usable under
> DOS (or CP/M-86).
>
> Does anyone know if MS Network can be run on an XT or does it have
> 286-specific code? I can't recall.
>
>
On review, looks like I missed the intent of your actual question, Chuck...
IIRC, the mid-80's IBM's PC Lan and MS's LAN Manager both ran on 8088's using DOS 3.3 and above and NETBIOS. I don't believe that a 286 was required.
Jared
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