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 Message 111 
 Kurt Weiske to Leslie Given 
 DOOM 2016 
 22 May 16 07:44:08 
 
  Re: DOOM 2016
  By: Leslie Given to Alan Ianson on Thu May 19 2016 09:13 pm

 LG> About 8 or so friends would link BNC connector cables in dos3.22 and
 LG> LANtastic or Novel to have LAN games with doom2. Some of us, would play
 LG> 4-way doom2 or Decent with clients connecting to Majorbbs gameconnection
 LG> also. 

I worked at a software company with a call center. We'd wait until closing,
head over to customer service, place a 6-way conference call with the players
over the LAN and play cooperative mode until my mouse arm was sore.

Back then we were on a shared ethernet segment and would kill off the network,
much to the annoyance of people working late. Soon after that we bought our
first Ethernet switch, so each department had a 10 megabit connection in to the
backbone. 20-30 people sharing a 10 megabit connection -- my, how far we've
come!
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