Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!amdahl!pyramid!prls!philabs!crpmks!gaboon!stpstn!aad From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Bastard protocol families? Message-ID: <2091@stpstn.UUCP> Date: 13 Sep 88 04:44:35 GMT References: <348@eagle_snax.UUCP> Reply-To: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT Lines: 16 In article <348@eagle_snax.UUCP> geoff@eagle_snax.UUCP ( R.H. coast near the top) writes: > "Apple's interest in TCP/IP will legitimize the protocol in much > the same manner that A/UX legitimized UNIX," said Vint Cerf, > Vice President of ... a nonprofit thinktank in Reston VA. This is remarkably similar to the DG ad described in "Soul of a New Machine" which said something like "IBM says its entry into the minicomputer market will legitimize it. The bastards say 'Welcome.'", which I howled over. Of course, to this day, the best use I've seen for an IBM mini is the Series/1 at CMU's ITC that works the badge readers and the Coke machine. Saying that A/UX legitimized unix would be like saying that our sun ipc board legitimized msdos..... -- @disclaimer(Any concepts or opinions above are entirely mine, not those of my employer, my GIGI, or my 11/34) beak is beak is not Anthony A. Datri,SysAdmin,StepstoneCorporation,stpstn!aad