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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?

ansi написал:

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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."

И ещё можно вспомнить "Kermit", созданный в Columbia University.

MS-DOS Kermit runs directly under DOS 2.0 and later and under Microsoft Windows 3.11 or earlier.
MS-DOS Kermit supports communication through serial ports, a wide variety of local networking methods (like NetBIOS, BAPI, DECnet, NASI, SuperLAT, TELAPI, and TES, plus it has its own built-in TCP/IP stack and Telnet client. Modem dialing is accomplished with modem-specific dialing scripts


WHAT IS KERMIT?

Kermit is the name of a file-transfer and -management protocol and a suite of computer programs for many types of computers that implements that protocol as well as other communication functions ranging from terminal emulation to automation of communications tasks through a high-level cross-platform scripting language. The software is transport-independent, operating over TCP/IP connections in traditional clear-text mode or secured by SSH, SSL/TLS, or Kerberos IV or V, as well as over serial-port connections, modems, and other communication methods (X.25, DECnet, various LAN protocols such as NETBIOS and LAT, parallel ports, etc, on particular platforms).

The Kermit Project was founded at the Columbia University Computer Center (now CUIT) in 1981 to meet a specific need, and until the mid- to late 1990s, Kermit was Columbia's standard desktop connectivity software, used universally by students, faculty, and staff to connect from desktop microcomputers, PCs, Macintoshes, and Unix workstations to the central computing facilities: the IBM mainframes (1963-present), the DECSYSTEM-20s (1977-1988), CLIO (Columbia's first online library information system, 1984-2003), and Cunix (our Unix-based servers, 1986-present), and to departmental VAXes, PDP-11s, Suns, and other minicomputers. In the early days of microcomputers and PCs but before widespread deployment of local area networks and desktop workstations that connected to them, Kermit software linked the desktop to e-mail, bulletin boards, file sharing, text processing, messaging, and other aspects of the new on-line culture that is now taken for granted, long before the experience was available at most other institutions. At Columbia, the DEC-20s and the departmental minicomputers are long gone and the IBM mainframes are now only for backoffice use, but Kermit software is still used for SSH sessions from the desktop to CUNIX, and by the technical staff for system and network administration tasks; for example, configuring racks full of HP blade servers as they arrive, management of the University's telephone system, CGI scripting, alpha paging of on-call staff, and so on.