!Re: Nuke Redmond! - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Apr 2000

...
 > their LAN boards incompatible with anyone
else's.  They also tweaked
> their protocols to weaken their own networking system so people
> wouldn't be tempted to mix and match.  
That comment is pure cow-flop... I don't know a single engineer at DEC
(and now Compaq) who would ever have done this sort of thing...

...
 IP was not the rule until years after DECnet phaseIII
and when IP started
to become more wide spread there was PhaseIV and PHASEV decnet which was
routable, capable of doing IP over decnet and a lot of other tricks that
PCs needed.  PCs under winders were doing lanman then. 
Even so, much of the Internet network software has its roots on DEC
hardware... even if DEC wasn't doing it at the time...

					Megan Gentry
					Former RT-11 Developer

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