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[Looking] Info about MS LAN Manager

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Thomas M.:
UPS, sorry! The first five pictures were not ment to be sent. I deleted them.

JTA:
To get at the history of things (such as OP's MS-NET or LanMan categories), I usually rummage through sources like:

- wikipedia:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-Net
- old books (sometimes online)

These are loaded with references, resources, links, etc., and you will lose hours of your life rummaging ... sorry about that! For example, the above wikipedia link will launch you into more protocols, nos's, and details than you might have wanted, so I'll let you decide how far down the rabbit hole you want to go.

Many might think MS invented *all* of DOS, OS/2, NetBIOS/NetBEUI, MS-NET, SMB, Lan Manager, and so on ... as you rummage, you'll find the "originators or partners" of all of the above, where MS got a jump start, or partnered with someone else to get the ball rolling. For example:

  "BAF Protocol: The very first name for the protocol formerly known as SMB. The SMB protocol was originally developed by Dr. Barry A. Feigenbaum at IBM and, according to legend, was originally given his initials. It was later renamed SMB and, more recently, CIFS." (repeated in several sources I've found, so most likely "true" ***)

BIO: I've seen much, since the early '80's ... built my first 286 pc with dos, wordperfect, autocad in the '80's, then into unix workstations and pc's with pc-nfs (and "thick ethernet") in the mid-80's. At Sematech starting in '87/'88, ran networks of 100's (near 1000's) of PS/2's with dos, os/2, ms-net (fileservers), lan manager, and built all kinds of UNIX workstations (SUN, HP, IBM, and more). We "networked" (tied in) with the internet via the University of Texas at Austin in those days, until we got our own pipes to the budding "internet". Lots of fun (seriously) ...

Software: still going through hundreds, if not 1000's of diskettes, cd's, etc., converting to digitial (about 90 to 95% success rate). What others haven't already put on archive.org ...

Virtualization: allows me to fiddle again with all this old stuff ... while there's pc's, ps/2's, and unix in my storage containers, rebuilding it all in Virtualbox and similar is just so much easier these days, and allows many new possibilities ... such as AToF (run OS/2 problem-free, with 64-bit apps, modern browsers, etc.: see the virtualization sub-forum on OS2World!)

Enjoy the long and winding road ...

*** "As best I can tell after lots of rummaging ... YMMV ... trust but verify!

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