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

[Bart.Zorn@gmail.com]

On Jan 20, 2:38 pm, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <rOCdneyE55g6r8vWnZ2dnUVZ_q2dn... at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... 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.

Yes, and if I recall correctly, NCL was part of ISO/OSI and not
something that DEC invented.

Bart