mattx Posted February 28, 2010 Posted February 28, 2010 had never heard of netbeui but i was only 4 when you speak of this windows 95 thing! @dhicks great answer! God you are making me feel really old now........
glennda Posted February 28, 2010 Posted February 28, 2010 God you are making me feel really old now........ haha, my first pc a gateway 2000 running win95 on the old 56k modem, how slow it must have been compared to now!!
cookie_monster Posted February 28, 2010 Posted February 28, 2010 haha, my first pc a gateway 2000 running win95 on the old 56k modem, how slow it must have been compared to now!! I think i've still got the win95 floppy disk install somewhere at work, all 25 of them Oh the pain of rebuilding a PC and then having to download things like java, flash and adobe reader over a 28/56k modem. Not to mention windows updates
glennda Posted February 28, 2010 Posted February 28, 2010 I think i've still got the win95 floppy disk install somewhere at work, all 25 of them Oh the pain of rebuilding a PC and then having to download things like java, flash and adobe reader over a 28/56k modem. Not to mention windows updates there worth keeping if there not oem licensed for use if u get a schools agreement somewhere as they can be used as licenses to upgrade from, therefore if u buy pc's u dont have 2 pay for an os
cookie_monster Posted February 28, 2010 Posted February 28, 2010 there worth keeping if there not oem licensed for use if u get a schools agreement somewhere as they can be used as licenses to upgrade from, therefore if u buy pc's u dont have 2 pay for an os Yep i've got a whole box of Win98 licences as well shame DOS6 disks don't count
srochford Posted March 1, 2010 Posted March 1, 2010 Possibly not true - if they were OEM licensed disks (and back in 95 days, it was normal to ship OS discs with machines) then the license dies with the machine and you can't transfer them.
glennda Posted March 1, 2010 Posted March 1, 2010 there worth keeping if there not oem licensed for use if u get a schools agreement somewhere as they can be used as licenses to upgrade from, therefore if u buy pc's u dont have 2 pay for an os Possibly not true - if they were OEM licensed disks (and back in 95 days, it was normal to ship OS discs with machines) then the license dies with the machine and you can't transfer them. thats what i ment with my post it just didnt come out like that!!!
ajbritton Posted March 2, 2010 Posted March 2, 2010 +1 rep. Direct, to the point, and way over simplified It certainly used to be possible to buy hardware to do bridging. I'd be surprised if they are not still out there somewhere. My understanding of bridging was that it was a way of extending a segment or connecting segments of dissimilar media types together. I do also remember thinking of switches as multi-port bridges when they first appeared!
localzuk Posted March 2, 2010 Posted March 2, 2010 Bridging was a common issue with our University 'Residential' Network when I was at Lancaster. Each user paid for their connection in their room, and it was locked to a single computer via MAC address. I worked in the small workshop which fixed the virus ridden machines that the students had, and a good number of them had turned on bridging - but had left their second NIC back in their room, so when we tried to do anything, the connection was a bridge to no-where and just didn't work. Great fun.
tmcd35 Posted March 2, 2010 Posted March 2, 2010 My understanding of bridging was that it was a way of extending a segment or connecting segments of dissimilar media types together. Must admit that was always my understanding.
cookie_monster Posted March 2, 2010 Posted March 2, 2010 Must admit that was always my understanding. It is that as well.
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