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Может быть какие-нибудь еще фирмы разрабатывали программы для локальной сети?

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Novell Lite v1.1 или Personal Netware.
LANtastic.

ansi На старых MSDN CD был и клиент и MS сервер

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSDN

Где взять - не знаю, но думаю где-нибудь сохранилось.

http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/msdn.htm

LANtastic версия 3.0 вышел в начале 90 года. Наверно были версии 1.0 и 2.0 в конце 80-х.

а где ее можно скачать?

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Наверняка за это время (1984-1990) много какого сетевого ПО существовало для MS-DOS.

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Об истории развития сетей можно прочитать, например, здесь:
http://wisdomtree.info/dos/dostcpip.htm
Или здесь:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/me...networking

Вот несколько цитат оттуда:

"In 1985 Novell, a former hardware manufacture of CP/M systems, released its product "NetWare 86" (v 1.5) for the PC. A version for the AT followed with "NetWare 286" (v 2.0) in 1986."

"Microsoft tried to break Novell's dominance by its own networking software for DOS. "Microsoft LAN Manager" 1.0 was released in 1987."

"PC/TCP - A small TCP/IP implementation that was linked into a few applications like finger, whois and netwatch. PC-IP was released with its source into the public domain. Drew Perkins from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Dan Lanciani from Harvard University improved the code further.
The success of PC-IP inspired Romkey and friends to take the CMU version of the code and develop it into a proprietary product: "PC/TCP", which they sold through their company "FTP Software, Inc.", founded in 1986. The name was chosen after the popular 'File Transfer Protocol': PC/TCP included one of the first applications for FTP services on the PC."

Подробнее о PC-IP можно прочитать здесь: http://oldeee.see.ed.ac.uk/onl...pc-ip.html

"Along with PC/TCP, FTP Software Inc. developed the "Packet Driver Specification", the first multiprotocol driver specification for PC network interface cards. On 12 Dec 1988 this specification was released as an open standard, for anyone to implement."

"Second after the early PC-IP kernel was the ""KA9Q Network Operating System" (NOS)" by Phil Karn in 1985. Karn, an engineer from Baltimore, Maryland had created it for CP/M two years before and then ported it to DOS. It also was one of the first TCP/IP applications for DOS that used FTP Software's packet driver specification."

"In 1986 the "National Center for Supercomputing Applications" (NCSA) at the University of lllinois released "Telnet" - a client for UNIX telnet services which could act as FTP and rcp server as well. It was accompanied by TCP/IP tools like finger, whois and lpr. NCSA Telnet came with its own TCP/IP kernel, which was already built-in into the applications."

"Beneath FTP Software Inc.'s PC/TCP a lot of other commercial applications could be found on the market for DOS TCP/IP networking software ten or fifteen years ago. Up to 30 TCP/IP packages for DOS were available in the middle of the nineties, including IBM "TCP/IP for DOS", NetManage "Chameleon", Sun "PC-NFS", Novell "LAN WorkPlace", Frontier Technologies "SuperTCP" or Artisoft "Lantastic". A comparison of their features can be found here. Read also the corresponding article in the "Network Computing" magazine."