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Subject: Re: Bastard protocol families?
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Date: 26 Sep 88 17:33:00 GMT
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What the reporter didn't mention is that I qualified the remark by
saying the the adoption of UNIX and TCP/IP by Apple legitimized these
tools for a community which had not been exposed to them before.

Obviously, TCP/IP and UNIX were considered not only legitimate but 
even de rigeur by the community that developed and propagated them.

Vint Cerf