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this man speaks the truth. IPX/SPX was king back then. Frankly, SPX is recognized today as better 'tcp'/'packet' performance than ipv4.

If it ever comes back it needs to stick to its roots. LAN performance was stellar, and still is. I think a certain high level bank still runs it, cause no hackers understand the lan protocol.

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I worked at a bank in London over 30 years ago using Netware and Btrieve for database and MHS for email

It may be the same bank! Although they were clearly heading towards a Microsoft stack in the early 90s

The bbank I worked for did the same.

I think most would have done Netware worked first then eventually MS as Windows took over

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