Posted on 04/02/2015 2:41:35 PM PDT by dayglored
Windows 3.1 maybe
You got that right. Those utilities are great.
I just finished porting PolarSSL...er “mbed TLS” (an open source crypto library for embedded systems) to Windows 3.1....it wasn’t that bad, considering the G_d-awful x86 memory segmentation model...the only thing I’m worried about is the RSA code—SS ==== DS, and it’s a shared library, so SS != DS!
Almost 20 years ago, there was an experimental IPv6 stack driver for NT4. It was released as an open-source driver by their R&D division, since they were at peak monopoly then...(coughcoughinternetexplorer4coughcough)
The documentation is still there if you look deep enough, but the code may well be long gone...
For Windows 2000/XP, the IPv6 stack became mature enough (and feature-complete by 2000, but only provisionally approved for production environments in 2001, fully so in 2006)—they just took it private...
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