[ih] Ken Olsen's impact on the Internet

[jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)]

    > From: Richard Bennett <richard at bennett.com>

    > The OSI development process was ultimately unsuccessful for a number of
    > reasons (too many cooks, counter-lobbying by IBM, the clambering of the
    > European PTTs for connection-oriented systems, the lack of any real
    > champions, etc.)

Actually, IMO the biggest reason why TCP/IP wound up on top was simple:
installed base, installed base, installed base.

Other factors, such as the ones you mention, along with more mature
implementations, people coming out of university familiar with it, etc, etc
helped, but installed base was - and remains - the "location, location,
location" of networking.

	Noel