[Info-vax] An alternative history of computing

[Scott Dorsey]

Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>One really has to wonder why, if it had a decade head start OSI (aka
>DECnet) never acquired the capabilities of TCP/IP.  Why is the Internet
>TCP/IP based and not OSI?

Because OSI was plagued with huge committees of people who couldn't 
agree on anything.

I took a class with Philip Enslow who was a huge promoter of the OSI model
but he spent most of his time promoting it to the other people on the
committee with him.
--scott
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