[Info-vax] Rethinking DECNET ?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <9022cee8-0fcd-413a-9ef2-638456f37fee at googlegroups.com>,
	Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
> DECnet-V wasn't bloated although it was the first true 7-layer OSI-compliant stack (IIRC). TCP/IP pretends to be 7-layer but is is really four although this has not proved to be a problem.

TCP/IP has never "pretended" to be anything OSI.  Some people have
tried to shoehorn it into the 7-layer Model but those of us who have
been with it since the beginning, or nearly so, have always known the
truth.

bill

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