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by nimajneb 785 days ago
I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure you're correct. Interestingly though, I have an PC I got from a college that has Win 3.11 and has a network card in it and TCP/IP isn't enabled or on it. I was trying to figure out how to use the network card, but all I can find are a bunch of other communication standards.
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paleotrope 785 days ago
I was installing laptops with windows 3.11 for workgroups in the 90s to get the tcpip stack.

https://casadevall.pro/articles/2020/05/exploring-windows-fo...

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smoyer 785 days ago
Agreed ... You need WFW or a third party TCP/IP stack.
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NoMoreNicksLeft 784 days ago
I think you needed Trumpet WinSOCK to get 311 on the internet. And there wasn't much other than email, and Netscape to do with it back then. Gopher maybe, but I didn't hear about what that was until it was more or less dead.
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