Describe the TCP/IP protocol designed by Microsoft that enabled it to keep using NetBIOS names but dump the NetBEUI protocol.

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Microsoft designed a new TCP/IP protocol that enabled it to keep using the NetBIOS names but dump the NetBEUI protocol. The new protocol, NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT), runs NetBIOS on top of TCP/IP. In essence, Microsoft created its own name resolution protocol that had nothing to do with DNS.
 

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