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

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Thu May 31 22:25:43 EDT 2018


On 5/31/2018 9:59 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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.

Hmmmm.

Are you sure that X.25 is OSI?

As I recall then X.25 predates OSI.

Arne




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