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   Den of Earth (denofearth@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 09:03:26 JST Den of Earth

   • Winchell Chung ⚛🚀
   • Jordan Mechner

   @jmechner @nyrath

   Doom LAN parties were not for the faint of geek.

   I recall Doom only supported Novell IPX protocol at the time (no IP), so you needed Novell 286 or 386, which itself required a dedicated server.

   On the plus side, it wasn't fussy about the physical layer so ArcNet and Token Ring were acceptable!

   Much later came IPX over IP.

   Good times!

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 09:03:26 JST clacke

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     • Winchell Chung ⚛🚀
     • Jordan Mechner

     @DenOfEarth No Novell server was needed to run IPX peer to peer.

     @nyrath @jmechner