Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn Wheeler Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: 43 Years Of TCP/IP Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:36:39 -1000 Organization: Wheeler&Wheeler Lines: 22 Message-ID: <87ikdkkd7c.fsf@localhost> References: <10j6l76$3oras$4@dont-email.me> <10j6lpa$3ppd5$1@dont-email.me> <10j6rce$3rpgb$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:36:43 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="08af7bd3c1cfa38c38472058c5a61b0e"; logging-data="4174367"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19MBRFTIO5GcfdW2Vv9xo8jdYEh6SlHRzM=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hG2nBI38GjHYK6pr5HZF0JXCzEU= sha1:Uxpk7ykcub9uZkW24yaI1JNLzME= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:232992 Lawrence D’Oliveiro 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