MicroNugget: How to Configure TCP/IP in WFW 3.11

In this video, Tim Warner covers configuring TCP/IP in Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Don't worry — this isn't a 15-year late upload: it's a window to the past. Seeing what Windows was in 1993 can help us appreciate and understand what it is today.

The TCP/IP protocol is, today, a given. Few people ever think about a time when it wasn't commonplace.

But head back to 1993, when Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was making a huge splash in enterprise networking, and you'll see how computing and networking technologies have evolved together.

That version of Windows rode on top of DOS, and its RAM was capped under 1MB. It worked as a shell application, passing all interactions as commands down to DOS.

It boasted double the file access at 32 bits — a big deal at the time. And networking was more and more important: the NetBIOS stack was developed, along with the P2P protocol NetBEUI.

But Winsock packages were becoming popular as more people realized they wanted TCP/IP networking rather than simply P2P. And that's what Windows has been trying to create solutions for ever since.

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[LifeIsTooShortForQRP]

Nice job explaining this. I'm going to try it, I also got hooked to retro computing. I'm not alone I noticed; 8088, 286, 386 and 486 stuff suddenly got VERY expensive on eBay!

[prban]

Fantastic! Great way to start the week.

[jenpsakiscousin]

I got a lot of old cnc machines in the shop, most networked with wfw 3.11 sure beats a floppy!!!

[NLGAMER]

Thanks! will be using this. Just hope that wolverine is still up somewhere.

[MetConst]

Many thanks! It's hard to find good information on 3.11 in 2020.