[Info-vax] An alternative history of computing

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-07-28, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
> Don't get the wrong idea.  I'm not proposing DECnet as a better product. 
>   It was and is a good product for the time in which it was developed 
> and used.  But it never became universal.  Not sure why?  Doesn't 
> matter, TCP/IP works, and works almost everywhere.
>
> My only problem is people today knocking older stuff that perhaps was 
> bleeding edge when developed, but perhaps no continuing development, or, 
> something better (or more universal) came along.  Doesn't make the older 
> stuff bad, just outdated.
>

The reason why I compare DECnet to today's standards instead of those
of 30 years ago is because there are people here in 2021 who are deluded
enough to think that DECnet is somehow comparable to the networking
stacks of today, both in functionality and security.

That's why DECnet gets compared by me to those same stacks of today
(and is promptly found by me to be massively lacking compared to
modern networking stacks).

Simon.

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