mark lewis wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT>> I wonder if there's something similar for dos?

 ml>> the closest is RL-FOSSIL...

 RJT> And what does that one do?  Look like a modem to the
 RJT> application while talking to a NIC?

 ml> yes, that's what all virtual modem shims do... but not
 ml> necessarially to a NIC... more like to the tcp/ip protocol stack...

Gotcha.

 ml> the problem with DOS ones is that there are several tcp/ip 
 ml> protocol stacks and they are not compatible with each other... not 
 ml> compatible in that programs coded for one will not work with 
 ml> another... i'm aware of two, possibly three, stacks for DOS... 
 ml> actually, that may be three, possibly four... i have run the m$ 
 ml> workgroup addon stack with netbios and tcp/ip on a DOS only 
 ml> machine and even had a DOS 5 workgroup server... no windows 
 ml> software at all...

I might want to hear about the way to accomplish that some time...

What were some of the differences between these incompatible stacks?

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