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It wasn't silly. It was third-party software which provided functionality that the OS simply lacked.


agreed, I lived through those times, TCP/IP was not a thing, until it was. There was no reason for it to be in the OS until it actually became popular and therefor useful

I used various competing systems before that in Windows/DOS




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