From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <830da83a8c0e0ecd26d011be5522ab23@collyer.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] datakit Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:35:18 -0700 From: geoff@collyer.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: d734ef10-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 The Math and CS Research Datakit nodes were taken out of service while I was at the Labs. I was told that Datakit technology is used in the field, though I don't recall details. It was expensive and the 1127 folks seemed glad to be rid of it, though it certainly did seem to me to have some very desirable properties for a network. Instead we now have IP running over dumb networks that guarantee us very little and for which the solution to every problem seems to be another protocol/RFC. At least it's a full-employment act for programmers (or would be in a working economy).