[Info-vax] An alternative history of computing

[Scott Dorsey]

chris  <chris-nospam at tridac.net> wrote:
>
>That's a rather biased, one sided view. I was using tcp/ip in the late
>1980's and by then, most if not all of the unix community had a common
>set of networking standards that just worked out of the box and was 
>reliable. Billion $ companies were created and thrived on it as well.
>Even DEC had mips cpu based unix workstations and Ultrix ran on VAX,
>mips and even pdpd11 hardware.

In the commercial world everybody had x.25 and it just worked right out
of the box too (unless you had a Pr1me or a CDC).

Although I remembered when everything stopped to change ip versions.
--scott


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