[ih] Quantifying OSI

[Dave Crocker]

On 5/12/2026 2:41 PM, william yeager via Internet-history wrote:
> I had a DEC station 3500 on my desktop to do some contract work with DEC. It ran Ultrix with the complete IP stack.


That was produced by the rogue, West Coast part of DEC.  Assuming it was 
the same product I had while at DEC, it seemed surprising crippled for 
I/O, and the like. When I asked about this, I was told it was intentional.

There had been an earlier RISC project that was killed because it didn't 
run VMS.

This kind of purity view ran deep in DEC, including killing an SNMP 
management console that productized the free software and was in direct 
response to DEC customer demand.  But it was killed because it did  not 
conform to the 'strategic' network management work.  Which eventually 
shipped and failed.

This workstation was designed to look entirely unmenacing to the 
mainframe DEC products.  However, I was told, it was the fasted machine 
DEC had...

d/

ps.  My 2021 Toyota RAV plugin hybrid can be quick off the line. It was 
widely touted as the /second/ fastest car Toyota made.  The fasted was 
sold as fast, while the RAV4 did not have this as a major selling 
point.  Then I read in independent review that compared the two cars and 
it said the RAV4 was faster...

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