[ih] Ken Olsen's impact on the Internet

Dave Walden dave.walden.family at gmail.com
Mon Feb 7 21:00:41 PST 2011


>Well... DEC resisted TCP/IP a lot less than Wang; and lasted a lot longer.

My memory is that mostly all the hardware vendors, still living in 
the world of proprietary software locked into their hardware, 
resisted TCP/IP.  I'm think I remember a trend where user demand 
forced them to add TCP/IP in parallel with their proprietary network 
standard and then eventually, the bulk of the traffic went to the 
Internet via TCP/IP since users (e.g., big corporations) in fact 
didn't want to be locked into a single vendor.







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