[Info-vax] Kernel Transplantation

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 10:25:29 -0700, Mark Berryman wrote:

> DECnet, however, was designed and implemented by a
> much smaller group, which often leads to much better code.

Code (implementation) is one thing, design (protocol) is quite another. 
DECnet had an address space so restricted, it make the 32-bit IP address 
space seem expansive. And whose dumb idea was it to tie the DECnet address 
to the MAC address? TCP/IP has ARP; even lowly AppleTalk had its own ARP-
equivalent; yet the clever DEC engineers never saw this as important for 
their protocol stack.