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Thanks! edit
Maury, thanks for creating this! It's been a gap in our coverage that I've wanted to get filled for some time. Now my timeline has lost one of its few red links! Wbm1058 (talk) 19:06, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
- Aww, shucks. Maury Markowitz (talk) 20:28, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
BTW... edit
I strongly suspect this article is still missing some details.
One is that it seems MS sold a "bare" version of MS-Net for running directly on DOS machines being sold by 3rd parties. I've seen several references to this, including this one which seems to suggest it was known as "Microsoft Networks" in that case. However, given that MS-Net was on top of NetBIOS, that leaves the question as to what networking would be used in these cases. It is very well possible that it was "anything the vendor used", but I'd like some concrete examples before stating this in the article.
But that being the case, that leads me to ponder what 3+ was... was it simply a version of MS-Net with a few added features? Or was it a bundle one could add to other PC's that didn't come with MS-Net out of the box? Again, I need to find more sources to clarify this.
There's also some confusion about the application protocols.The NetWorld article states that MS-Net used SMB, but SMB histories suggest it was not developed until two years later.
So, more to come...
Maury Markowitz (talk) 20:37, 9 October 2014 (UTC)