Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!bionet!agate!ucbvax!A.ISI.EDU!CERF From: CERF@A.ISI.EDU Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Bastard protocol families? Message-ID: <[A.ISI.EDU]26-Sep-88.13:33:22.CERF> Date: 26 Sep 88 17:33:00 GMT References: <2091@stpstn.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 8 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