Later on that protocol was split into two parts: NetBUI and NetBIOS. Another popular one was IPX, created by Xerox in the late 80s, which became very popular as Novell used it in their NetWare operating system. Before IP became more or less the standard layer 3 network protocol also in home/company networks, other protocols were directly used on top of layer 2 networks (layer 2 means Ethernet, Token Ring, etc.) One of them was NetBIOS, created by IBM in 1983 and it became very popular as Microsoft decided to use it for Windows.
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