"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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> scott wrote:
>> that's one reason why cameras use USB and not LAN or WLAN
>
> USB *is* a LAN. You mean memory chips? I've seen cameras that do wireless 
> LAN too, for (for example) places that take your ID photo and print it out 
> for you.
>
>> too hard/impossible to get a network stack on DOS?
>
> Errrr, nope!  You could get network stacks pretty easily, really. That's 
> what the whole NETBIOS was.  Back in the DOS 3.x days, if I recall. Why 
> would it be difficult to put a network stack on a DOS machine?

Oh gawd, suddenly I remember it all:
The long boot sequence
The 3C509 drivers;
IPConfig;
The ReDiRector

<has a Jason-Bourne-finding-out-he is-really-David-Webb episode>

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