[Info-vax] DECnet use in today's world, was: Re: Tangent about DECnet versions.

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Thu May 31 21:59:28 EDT 2018


Stephen Hoffman  <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>
>OSI utterly failed at the one thing that really mattered.  Market acceptance.

Not at all.  For a long time, X.25 was the king of the networking world, and
far exceeded tcp/ip use.  These days, cheap tcp/ip has pretty much taken over
but there is a surprising amount of X.25 stuff out there in the commercial DP
world still.
--scott

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