[oclug] dhcp grief

[Milan Budimirovic]

Bill Strosberg wrote:

>
> Agreed with all the points above except the networking comment.  
> Windows was constructed around NetBIOS, and all networking design was 
> from a __local__ area network perspective.  Inter-networking was a 
> duct-taped-on mess because no one in Redmond saw the Internet coming 
> until Bill got the Peterbilt radiator-grille imprint on his forehead 
> from standing on the Information Superhighway telling everyone they 
> didn't need to be connected.
>
Wasn't NetBIOS developed for IBM by a third party called called Sytek? 
AFAIK Microsoft had very little to do with it; it was IBM that saw the 
need for networking on the IBM PC.