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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> 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.
> 

A BIG part of the problem was the fact that TCP/IP had already conquered 
the world but the government had not noticed this fact.