Installing NetManage Chameleon on Windows 3.0!
After seeing the spotlight on twitter from WinWorld, on NetManage Chameleon, an old TCP/IP stack that supported Windows 3.0! With more details over on the forum. I was inspired to set it up myself. I...
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Setting up SNA networking with Hercules using DLSw
I finally broke down and made a quick video on setting up the DLSw ‘lab’ that I had uploaded on Internet Archive. See it works! Although I should have gone more in depth with the cisco part. Namely...
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The world vs NetBEUI
UPDATE* ME from the future, I was ind of right in that something was missing, nothing was eating the trafic, rather 86box only had the all MAC broadcast address set as a filter, and older protocols...
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So, I used to think Lan Manager Domains and early NT Domains were the same thing
Obviously, this was wrong. And besides the NetBEUI being eaten on the network for no reason I can see, as I’m sure these machines should be able to talk to each-other this was the end result: The OS/2...
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Building MIT PC/IP, or making apple pie
“If you want to make a pie from scratch, you must first create the universe” –Carl Sagan A little while ago I had touched briefly on the availability of of a PCC port to the 8086 done back in the...
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Announcing Cockatrice III 0.5g
Now with better pcap filter in place. I had an issue with 86box and how NetBEUI wasn’t working. It didn’t hit me at the time but cold-brewed caught it, that the 86box didn’t have the multicast...
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Using MIT PC/IP with SLiRP & a virtual Cisco Router
In this video I’ll be covering the circa 1985 MIT PC/IP stack running on 86box trying to connect to a user mode network library, SLiRP. After that fails I’ll show how to break the stack apart so we...
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Looking at UnixWare 7.1.1 on VMware & Qemu yet again!
Same old OS, same old problems. My UnixWare 7.1.1 box The UnixWare 7.1.1 install program has a date & time Y2k problem. And this always ends in whatever licensing you give it to install will...
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Rebuilding Darwin from source: Part 2 Building the kernel
Re-creating the steps from 7 years ago the first phase was to build the Darwin kernel. Like everything else, once you know what is involved, it’s not all that difficult. But as always finding out the...
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Merry Christmas 2024!
While doom scrolling on eBay I always seem to stop and look at the upgrade version of Windows 3.1. It has to be the most clearly marked “why bother upgrading” version of Windows, and at the same time...
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