LAN Manager
Description
The name LAN Manager was used both for a network layer that was sold as an add on for OS/2 versions 1.x (and could run on later versions) and Unix systems and also a Network Operating System that combined a Microsioft's or IBM' version of OS/2 server or Hewlett Packard's HP-UX and the LAN Manager add on.
Actually the primary developer of the LAN Manager product was 3Com and it was based on a NOS that they had sold under the name 3+Share that used a modified version of DOS called MS-NET as their basis. 3Com originally released the product in 1988 as 3+Open LAN Manager with server support for OS/2 and client support for OS/2 and DOS with Apple Macintosh support added a little later, the company licensed the product soon thereafter to Microsoft and then it was known initially as 3Com/Microsoft LAN Manager but later as just LAN Manager or LAN Manager/X for the Unix versions with the name of the OEM (HP, IBM, MS et al) in front although 3Com continued to offer the product under the 3+Open name. 3Com lost interest in the product and by 1991 had sold their codebase to Microsoft who integrated the product into Windows NT Server.
Versions
- 1987: MS OS/2 LAN Manager 1.0 (Basic/Enhanced)
- 1989: MS OS/2 LAN Manager 1.1
- 1991: Microsoft OS/2 LAN Manager 2.0
- 1992: Microsoft OS/2 LAN Manager 2.1
- 1993: Microsoft OS/2 LAN Manager 2.2
- 1994: Microsoft OS/2 LAN Manager 2.2a
OEM
- 3Com
- Oct 1988: 3+Open LAN Manager 1.0
- Sep 1989: 3+Open LAN Manager 1.1
- Hewlett Packard
- 1990: HP LAN Manager 1.1
- Torus Systems
- 1988: Tapestry II LAN Manager
- Ungermann-Bass
- Oct 1988: Net/One MS OS/2 LAN Manager
Publications
- Ryan: LAN Manager: A Programmer's Guide - Microsoft Press 1990, ISBN 1-55615-166-7
- Microsoft LAN Manager Programmer's Reference - Microsoft Press 1990, ISBN 1-55615-313-9
- Blanda: Using Microsoft LAN Manager - Que 1991, ISBN 0-88022-684-6
- Michael Day: Troubleshooting LAN Manager 2.0 - M&T Books 1991, ISBN 1-55851-161-X
- Currid: Understanding Microsoft LAN Manager 2.0 - Sybex 1992, ISBN 0-89588-810-6
- Don Baarnes, Mike Wirsching: Inside LAN Manager - New Riders 1992, ISBN 1-56205-023-0
- Original documentation