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No, NETBIOS is an Application Program Interface (API) that specifies an interface between computers using a network transport such as TCP/IP, IPX, or NETBEUI. NETBIOS is not a protocol at all. Here's a typical definition, those "lower-level network services" they speak of are things like TCP/IP, IPX, or NETBEUI.
Network Basic Input/Output System. In networking, a layer of software, originally developed in 1984 by IBM and Sytek, that links a network operating system with specific network hardware. NetBIOS provides an API with a consistent set of commands for requesting lower-level network services to transmit information from node to node.
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