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Re: 43 Years Of TCP/IP

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> SNA wasn’t even a proper peer-to-peer network architecture at this
> time.
>
> I just remembered that of course ISO-OSI was the “official” candidate
> for an open network architecture. But it turned out to be overly
> complicated and bureaucratic and (mostly) too hard to implement. So
> TCP/IP won pretty much by default.

For a time I reported to same executive as person responsible for AWP164
(which had some peer-to-peer) that morphs into (AS/400) APPN. I told him
that he should come over to work on real networking (TCP/IP) because the
SNA forces would never appreciate him.

When AS/400 went to announce APPN, the SNA forces vetoed it and there
was delay to carefully rewrite the announcement letter to not imply any
relationship between APPN & SNA. It wasn't until much later that
documents were rewritten to imply that somehow APPN came under the SNA
umbrella.

-- 
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970

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43 Years Of TCP/IP Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-01-01 20:25 +0000
  Re: 43 Years Of TCP/IP Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-01-01 13:34 -0700
    Re: 43 Years Of TCP/IP Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-01-01 22:10 +0000
      Re: 43 Years Of TCP/IP Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2026-01-01 15:36 -1000
    Re: 43 Years Of TCP/IP Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2026-01-01 15:27 -1000
      Re: 43 Years Of TCP/IP Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> - 2026-01-01 17:45 -0800
        Re: 43 Years Of TCP/IP Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2026-01-02 13:27 -1000
          Re: 43 Years Of TCP/IP Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-01-03 03:11 +0000
      Re: 43 Years Of TCP/IP Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-01-02 03:22 +0000
      Re: 43 Years Of TCP/IP Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-01-02 14:08 +0000
        Re: 43 Years Of TCP/IP Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-01-02 20:29 +0000
      Re: 43 Years Of TCP/IP Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2026-01-02 08:27 -1000
        Re: 43 Years Of TCP/IP Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-01-02 20:34 +0000
    Re: 43 Years Of TCP/IP John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-01-02 04:41 +0000
    Re: 43 Years Of TCP/IP rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-01-02 05:45 +0000
  Re: 43 Years Of TCP/IP antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-01-01 22:11 +0000
    Re: 43 Years Of TCP/IP Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> - 2026-01-01 15:03 -0800
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