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The LAN: A History of Network Operating Systems Part 12

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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.

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The Impacts of IBM's SNA Networking on LANs Part 1

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IBM also supported a wide variety of other software interfaces, as well, including IEEE's Logical Link Control (LLC). In addition, IBM sold a number of Ethernet (802.3) related products during this time as a hedge.

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Fountainhead: Where the Server Industry Went Amiss

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Why do we have data networks, storage networks and management networks (all distinct, I might add). OS virtualization has massively simplified complexity at the software level by abstracting-away the machine-level CPU commands, and has even contributed to simplifying networking between virtual machines.

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

Fountainhead

HP, IBM and now even Cisco have solutions in the space, but I believe only Egenera has been doing it the longest, and has the broadest installed base of enterprises in the real-world using it and expanding footprint. In the way virtualization abstracts & configures the software world (O/S, applications, etc.), Ken Oestreich.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Bug Bounty Hunters

ForAllSecure

I started to do that, this is the mid-area between everybody running IBM stuff into the custom computer. And so when everyone else was running Novell networks, I was really deeply invested into what would become Active Directory at a later stage. Laptops wasn't really a thing, so people were just building these custom computers.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Bug Bounty Hunters

ForAllSecure

I started to do that, this is the mid-area between everybody running IBM stuff into the custom computer. And so when everyone else was running Novell networks, I was really deeply invested into what would become Active Directory at a later stage. Laptops wasn't really a thing, so people were just building these custom computers.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Bug Bounty Hunters

ForAllSecure

I started to do that, this is the mid-area between everybody running IBM stuff into the custom computer. And so when everyone else was running Novell networks, I was really deeply invested into what would become Active Directory at a later stage. Laptops wasn't really a thing, so people were just building these custom computers.