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Old 08-25-2008, 04:11 PM
Default Re: strange tcpip issue

"Richard B. Gilbert" writes:

> Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote:


>> DEC manufactured DECnet, which was superior. Why should they have
>> pushed something inferior? Non-DEC stuff could speak DECnet as well, so
>> it wasn't clear that TCPIP would win in the end.


> DECNet Phase IV or Phase V?


TCP/IP was in development in the Phase III timeframe, and went live on the
ARPANET about the time Phase IV was announced.

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