08-25-2008, 04:25 PM
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 Re: strange tcpip issue
JF Mezei writes:
> Rich Jordan wrote:
>> It was the government weaseling out of the POSIX and OSI mandates that
>> pulled the rug out from under DEC and the other folks that had
>> bothered to implement it.
> I am not sure "weaseling" is the correct word. TCPIP grew phenomenally
> because all of a sudden, Unix started to be taken seriously. (Sun may
> have had a lot to do with it, stealing DEC customers and moving them to
> TCPIP based Unix).
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> You also need to look at Cisco. They came out with a gizmo called a
> "router" which allowed simple boxes to do that routing job, which made
> it possible to have simple TCPIP nodes without needing the equivalent of
> "DECnet routing". And that gave TCPIP a big push.
I think you ... Scratch that, I *know* you have this backwards. cisco Systems
brought out their router, which originally used the SUN-1 processor board
designed for the Stanford University Network, before BSD was released. The
original target was the sites already running TCP/IP for ARPANET connectivity.
(Another of cisco's early products was the MEIS, a Massbus-based Ethernet
interface for the KL-10 processor designed by one of the cisco founders while
at Stanford.)
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