![]() ![]() IPX/SPX was standard for DOS-era multi-user network games.īecause of IPX/SPX’s prevalence in LANs in the 1990s, Microsoft added support for the protocols into Windows’ networking stack, starting with Windows for Workgroups and Windows NT. Novell is largely responsible for the use of IPX as a popular computer networking protocol due to their dominance in the network operating system software market (with Novell Netware) from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s. IPX/SPX-Compatible Protocol supports the 32-bit Windows Sockets 1.1 and NetBIOS over Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) programming interfaces. Microsoft’s version of the Novell NetWare IPX/SPX (Internetwork Packet Exchange/Sequenced Packet Exchange) protocol for Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows 2000 is called IPX/SPX-Compatible Protocol. IPX works at layer 3 of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model and SPX works at layer 4. ![]()
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