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From: rickd@hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Net Bios Available?
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Date: 27 Jun 88 20:19:00 GMT
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Nf-From: hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM!rickd    Jun 27 16:19:00 1988


Pardon me if this is naive question; LANs, and _especially_ IBM PC's are
not my forte'.

The question:  are there any commercial realizations of the Net Bios
Protocol (currently, I hear, at the RFC phase -- Request for Comment)?
Net Bios is supposed to be some sort of magic that allows networked users
to access a common file or DBMS with record level locking.

I suppose since it's IBM-targeted that it's not layered on TCP/IP over
Ethernet but some other combination.  What is/would be the physical and link
layers?

Thanks for any info you can share, even just a pointer to somewhere else.
These questions caught me completely flat-footed.

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