[Info-vax] Rethinking DECNET ?
JF Mezei
jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca
Tue Sep 2 11:39:20 EDT 2014
On 14-09-02 10:18, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> DEC bet the farm on OSI. At the time it looked (imho) like a good bet,
>
> One of many mistakes!!
Betting the farm on OSI was not a mistake. At the time, governments
mandates interoperability between different systems and mandated that
all major computer manufacturers build a common network protocol aka:
OSI. (aka: solve incompatibilities between IBM SNA, DECnet, Unix IP
and various other proprietary protocols from the "bunch".)
The mistake was not when DEC bet the farm on it. The mistake happened a
bit later when DEC didn't realise that IP had become the common de-facto
standard replacing OSI which was going nowhere.
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