[ih] Installed base momentum (was Re: Design choices in SMTP)

[Dave Crocker]

On 2/13/2023 4:46 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
> IMHO by the early 90s, TCP had already won the competition, and 
> organizations everywhere were working on transitioning to the Internet

this was really by 1988.  We'd started on an OSI stack and were planning 
on TCP-to-OSI transition products and started talking with customers 
about their needs.

There was no interest from any of them in this, but they were quite 
eager for OSI-to-TCP transition products.

d/

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