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             run on Microsoft Windows 95 or 98 but for more advanced networking Windows NT or Windows 2000 is necessary. Large business will also use other less known operating systems like UNIX, Linux or Netware. Operating systems tell your other software and hardware what to do and manage its resources so everything gets done efficiently. While an OS is needed for all computers, protocols are only needed for networking. A protocol is the language that a computer speaks. Two computers using the same protocol can communicate with each other. Protocols are separate software so that it can communicate with different computers running different operating systems. Even a system running UNIX and system running Windows can talk this way. The most common protocol today is TCP/IP which stands for Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol. If you haven't already guessed, this is the pro
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