[Info-vax] An alternative history of computing

[Dave Froble]

On 7/28/2021 5:45 AM, chris wrote:
> On 07/28/21 02:50, David Jones wrote:
>> On Monday, July 26, 2021 at 6:27:22 AM UTC-4, chris wrote:
>>> Originally, all that was loosely based on an ISO model,
>>> the sort of standards that DEC were great supporters
>>> and contributors to at all levels, but really backed
>>> themselves into a corner over decnet. An obscure set
>>> of protocols and command set reminiscent of the sort of
>>> serisl line and telco ideas dating back to the 1970's.
>>> TCP/IP was faster, easier to visualise in design, to
>>> program and above all, a completely open source and fixed
>>> set of standards that anyone could use, improve and generally
>>> contribute to.
>>
>> The TCP/IP standards were developed over decades, RFC superceding RFC.
>> The RFC specifications often had gaps which results in conflicting
>> implementations
>> by different parties, usually resolved by adopting the interpretation
>> of the one
>> which has bigger presence in the rather limited ARPANET ecosystem.
>>
>>   Eventually it got reliable enough that  V.P. Gore proposed dropping
>> the commerce
>> restrictions.
>
> That's a rather biased, one sided view. I was using tcp/ip in the late
> 1980's

Well, there is your problem.  In the late 1970s DECnet was a working 
product.  As I remember, not so for TCP/IP.  I'd perhaps suggest that 
you need to be a bit older, but, it's no fun, won't wish that on someone.


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