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   TOM WALKER to ED VANCE   
   Safe Mode   
   14 Oct 14 10:28:00   
   
   EV>I talked to a fellow who explained to me that the reason I didn't see   
   EV>Internet Explorer (IE) getting out on the internet in Safe Mode With   
   EV>Networking was that the word "Networking" referred to the original   
   EV>kind of networking which was machine to machine.   
      
   EV>I'm thinking it was called something like Token Ring networking,   
   EV>or might even be called Daisy Chaining, I'm not sure but think   
   EV>that is what he was talking about.   
      
   EV>I remember seeing things like that mentioned in catalogs back in   
   EV>the early 1980's when I started getting interested in computing.   
   EV>I figured that was only used by large businesses that had many   
   EV>computers connected together.   
      
   EV>Am I close?   Thanks for reading.   
      
   Pretty much. It does refer to machine to machine networking and not the   
   internet as I recall.   
   Haven used Safe more in eons.   
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