On Dec 14, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Svein Skogen" <svein-listmail_at_stillbilde.net> writes: >> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >>> "Kevin Oberman" <oberman_at_es.net> writes: >>>> I'm sure that there are systems happily running MSDOS, but I bet >>>> not too many are networked. >>> That's a bet you're likely to lose - most of them are POS terminals, >>> industrial control applications etc. >> Add to that the lot of them that are running IPX/SPX protocol... ;) > > Damn you, I was this >< close to successfully repressing that memory! I was avoiding to jump into this, but... Maybe this hilarious proposal will cure your pain, dude. http://ietfdocs.potaroo.net/rfc/rfc1791.txt I remember that around the early 90's I read one of those peecee magazine authors (maybe Jerry Pournelle) asking the IETF to, please, drop that TCP/IP thingy and instead choose a standard, widely used protocol for the Internet: IPX. Let me touch more bad neurons for you: X.400 :) Borja.Received on Mon Dec 14 2009 - 14:15:58 UTC
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