9 Jan
2008
9 Jan
'08
3:20 a.m.
In article <4784208A.8589EB19 at cs.ubc.ca>,
Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> writes:
There's a lot of room for shades of gray in there
(what does 'forced' mean, a
nd
how far, and when) but I'd say there is a good
deal of validity to that
argument. In the 80's DEC and IBM were pretty big on pushing their own
'networking solutions' and did their best to avoid open protocols, at least
above the link level. TCP/IP didn't have the degree of prominence in the
networking world in those days as it does today.
But wasn't DEC instrumental in helping ethernet succeed? See the
history section of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet>. Or am I
confusing ethernet (physical layer) with tcp/ip (protocol layer)?
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