The vagaries of 1990s 32-bit Windows networking

[liam_on_linux]

I recently commented about a deeply misguided comment on HN that claimed that Windows 98 was the beginning of integrated networking in Windows. Wolfie Pauli (as I like to call him) applies: "that is not only not right, that is not even wrong!"

But, to be fair, which I rarely feel the urge to be towards Microsoft, Win98 did have one killer

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[dougs]

Linked here from Twitter, since no-one uses LJ any more.

> (Oh, and forget about IPv6 - Win95 just didn't do that, period; it hadn't been invented yet.)

It was unbelievably close. The earliest cite I have for IPv6 is December 1995, in RFC1883, 1884 and 1885:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1883

And so although the specification for IPv6 hadn't been published at the original ship-date of Win95 (4.00.950), it was certainly around (just!) at the time of SP1 (4.00.950a), well before 95B and aaaaages before 98.

[liam_on_linux]

> Linked here from Twitter, since no-one uses LJ any more.

Ah well, it still works and I am amused that even the nominally techie blog is 15YO now.

Good catch! I checked far more cursorily and AFAICS it was ratified in 1998. Well played.

[dougs]

Ah yes, published in 1995, ratified in 1998, implemented in .. oh, who knows, sometime between 2010 and ... maybe 2040?

[andrewducker]

37% implemented:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html