[ih] A paper

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 06:42:56PM +0300,
 Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote 
 a message of 43 lines which said:

> There were two points of view in the early 90s. On the one hand,
> technical, the people actually using the computing resources had a
> choice between the ITU protocols on big mainframes that were
> cumbersome to use (try X.400 email addressing) and that necessitated
> hacks like Kermit to get files transferred across to their PCs. On
> the other, a multiplication of free software like KA9Q & other
> pc-based software allowed for a TCP-IP stack on a PC.

There were more than two points of view. There was also the UUCP
people (who merged with the TCP/IP people but only after) and the
Fidonet crowd, which was both anti-OSI (their focus was on small local
machines) and anti-TCPIP (because it was "the US Army").