2 Jun
2007
2 Jun
'07
12:27 a.m.
Richard wrote:
"Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at
gmail.com> writes:
Although chronologically they're pretty close, I'd say it was the opening of
the internet to general public access circa 1989/90 that pushed such adoption
(the final battle in the protocol wars). At that point TCP/IP became mandatory
to connect to the "information highway" (remember that quaint phrase?), any
system that didn't provide TCP/IP wasn't going to receive much attention, and
all those competing/proprietary protocols (DECNET,SNA,OSI,etc.) became
superfluous (specialised capabilities notwithstanding).
TCP/IP took a while to trickle down from
Workstations to Micros.
Agreed. I think it was the web browser that pushed the adoption and
integration of TCP/IP.