From: Wesley Parish <wobblygong@gmail.com>
To: Jason Stevens <jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com>
Cc: "tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] ISO, OSI, and DECnet (was Re: If not Linux, then what?)
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:32:21 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACNPpea_Vj5dYf3yzTPZT4jYBBgscVd1QD7TELeTD8DskugAzw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1d3d8c9a-7006-4666-b32e-8fa4fc5e9f7c@PU1APC01FT039.eop-APC01.prod.protection.outlook.com>
Well, fwiw, the Aeronautical Telecommunications Network (ATN) that was
being discussed in the late nineties and early noughties, was supposed
to be built on the OSI stack. I have no idea what happened with that,
whether it went ahead or got altered.
On 8/30/19, Jason Stevens <jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com> wrote:
> Although I never have seen OSI in the wild, it was the one great thing about
> ‘Winsock’ is that it worked over TCP/IP , IPX/SPX, AppletTalk and Decnet.
> It was fun to convert a BBS from being telnet to some ‘telnet over decnet’
> monster I built.
>
> Although I’m guessing OSI would have allowed for common ‘network’
> applications to use different network topologies?
>
> I really need to get OSF/1 2.0 installed.
<snip>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-30 9:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-28 16:50 Paul Winalski
2019-08-28 17:24 ` Larry McVoy
2019-08-28 17:45 ` Jon Forrest
2019-08-28 17:50 ` Larry McVoy
2019-08-28 18:17 ` Kurt H Maier
2019-08-28 19:29 ` SPC
2019-08-29 0:29 ` George Michaelson
2019-08-29 14:54 ` Jason Stevens
2019-08-30 9:32 ` Wesley Parish [this message]
2019-08-30 13:59 ` Clem Cole
2019-08-31 23:38 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
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