[Info-vax] An alternative history of computing

[Dave Froble]

On 7/29/2021 8:53 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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 stuff bad, just outdated.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.
>

Yeah, well so is that "sorta round" rock the caveman chipped.  So, 
what's your point?

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