From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:35:03 +1000 From: George Michaelson To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] datakit Message-Id: <20040820153503.13cd0594@garlic.apnic.net> In-Reply-To: <2ff31f77de8ac5fe8ca97e6df6556e57@plan9.bell-labs.com> References: <2ff31f77de8ac5fe8ca97e6df6556e57@plan9.bell-labs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: d759d064-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 early ethernets were disgusting. I used one which was a standalone S100-bus box the size of a microwave oven, with DR11-W cabling to a Vax, The only network we had on it was cu/tip. it would not have been hard for Datakit to be remarkably better than this. as a single-vendor solution, from the days when the equipment seller was also the network provider, I think Datakit would have been nice to use. But in a multiple-provider world, the same pressures we have now on vendor neutrality, inter-provider addressing, end-to-end-ness would be driving it into a plethora of (non compatible) variants, and problems. -George