[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

[Bob Koehler]

In article <rOCdneyE55g6r8vWnZ2dnUVZ_q2dnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> 
> There was nothing much wrong with DECnet/OSI except for NCL!  And, of 
> course, the NCL documentation.  If you didn't have to configure and 
> manage it we could probably be using it today.  That and the fact that 
> it was a solution looking for a problem to solve!

   The problem was the government requiring ISO/OSI protocols on
   procurements, before the standards were completed, and then dropping
   the requirements soon after vendors shipped product that matched
   stable draft standards.