From: Eef Hartman on
In alt.os.linux.slackware Aragorn <aragorn(a)chatfactory.invalid> wrote:
>> Samba and NFS are 1980ish technology.
>
> UNIX is 1969'ish, 1970'is technology, and it still beats Windows hands
> down.
>
And SMB, the protocol the "samba" product is implementing, is 1990's:
the very primitive first implementation was in 1993 in Windows for
Workgroups, but it really only took off with Windows-95.
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From: John Hasler on
Eef Hartman writes:
> And SMB, the protocol the "samba" product is implementing, is 1990's:
> the very primitive first implementation was in 1993 in Windows for
> Workgroups, but it really only took off with Windows-95.

SMB was developed at IBM in the eighties for DOS.
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