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[ih] Ethernet, was Why TCP?
- Subject: [ih] Ethernet, was Why TCP?
- From: wfms at ottix.net (William Sotomayor)
- Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 09:08:25 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, 1 Sep 2016, Andrew G. Malis wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Paul Vixie <paul at redbarn.org> wrote:
> later on, DEC poured billions (that's like millions except with a "b")
> of dollars into DECnet Phase V, proving after all that they, and not the
> community, knew what the future of networking was going to look like.
> (they should have saved the money so that Compaq could have it.)
>
>
> DECnet Phase V gave us IS-IS, which was later standardized by ISO and is now in wide use
> throughout the Internet. It?s probably the most popular intra-AS routing protocol in use today
> by Internet backbone providers. So it wasn?t a total waste. :-)
Not at all, in fact it seems to be getting some use in the data centre of
all places by at least one vendor.
wfms