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SwellJoe on Jan 20, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Thanks for Trumpet Winsock

I was using an Amiga with the Miami TCP stack back then, which I paid for. My first Windows machine had Windows 95, which had networking built-in. But, I'm happy that some folks have made good on their shareware obligations. Writing software was a lot more difficult back then...I sometimes can't believe anything ever got done before we had the Internet to research things (and I know I personally was a much less effective developer before the Internet).

bashinator on Jan 20, 2016 [–]

> Miami TCP stack back then, which I paid for.

Yeah, this whole thread brought back how TCP/IP and dialup stacks used to be commercial. Huge win for the BSD license if you ask me.

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