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[Fact 1]: Netware dominatedHas Microsoft Ever Read the History Books? - IT Channel - IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness the personal computer LAN business from early after its introduction in 1983 until the mid 1990s when Microsoft introduced Windows NT Advanced Server and Windows for Workgroups.Of the competitors to NetWare, only Banyan Vines had comparable technical strengths, but Banyan never gained a secure base.

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[Fact 3]: This led to the development of 10Base-T and structured cabling which is still the basis of most LANs today.

[Fact 4]: A solution appeared with the advent of Novell NetWare which provided even-handed support for dozens of competing card/cable types, and a much more sophisticated operating system than most of its competitors.

[Fact 5]: Although this market segment is now much reduced, the technologies developed in this area continue to be influential on the Internet and in both Linux and Apple Mac OS X networking—and the TCP/IP protocol has now almost completely replaced IPX, AppleTalk, NBF and other protocols used by the early PC LANs.Early LAN cabling had always been based on various grades of coaxial cable, but IBM's Token Ring used shielded twisted pair cabling of their own design, and in 1984 StarLAN showed the potential of simple Cat3 unshielded twisted pair—the same simple cable used for telephone systems.

[Fact 6]: Typically, each vendor would have its own type of network card, cabling, protocol, and network operating system.

[Fact 7]: In addition, fiber-optic cabling is increasingly used.

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[Fact 8]: Microsoft and 3Com worked together to create a simple network operating system which formed the base of 3Coms 3+Share, Microsoft's LAN Manager and IBM's LAN Server - but none of these were particularly successful.During the same period, Unix computer workstations from vendors such as Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Silicon Graphics, Intergraph, NeXT and Apollo were using TCP/IP based networking.