IT Toolbox
MARCH 20, 2017
One clearly evident (if not explicitly stated) IBM strategy in managing outside competition was to coopt popular technology. The concept of an overarching connectivity architecture such as SAA was one approach to managing these compromises.
IT Toolbox
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
the network system calls then provided under interrupt 21H gave all suppliers of network software the capability to standardize at least some of the access to LAN hardware. Most manufacturers of LAN software had announced or implemented support of NETBIOS for IBM LANs. When DOS was extended in Version 3.1,
Fountainhead
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
Ultimately, all of this complexity gradually resulted from incremental server hardware evolution… the motherboards to be exact. Usually the local network had state too – ensuring that the IP and MAC address of the motherboard were attached to switches and LANs in a particular way. Greg Pfister.
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