Re: Quantifying OSI
Dave Crocker via Internet-history <[email protected]> Tue, 12 May 2026 22:03:44 +0000 (UTC)
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On 5/12/2026 2:41 PM, william yeager via Internet-history wrote: > I had a DEC station 3500 on my desktop to do some contract work with DEC. It ran Ultrix with the complete IP stack. That was produced by the rogue, West Coast part of DEC. Assuming it was the same product I had while at DEC, it seemed surprising crippled for I/O, and the like. When I asked about this, I was told it was intentional. There had been an earlier RISC project that was killed because it didn't run VMS. This kind of purity view ran deep in DEC, including killing an SNMP management console that productized the free software and was in direct response to DEC customer demand. But it was killed because it did not conform to the 'strategic' network management work. Which eventually shipped and failed. This workstation was designed to look entirely unmenacing to the mainframe DEC products. However, I was told, it was the fasted machine DEC had... d/ ps. My 2021 Toyota RAV plugin hybrid can be quick off the line. It was widely touted as the /second/ fastest car Toyota made. The fasted was sold as fast, while the RAV4 did not have this as a major selling point. Then I read in independent review that compared the two cars and it said the RAV4 was faster... -- Dave Crocker [email protected] bluesky: @dcrocker.bsky.social mast: @[email protected] +1.408.329.0791 Volunteer, Silicon Valley Chapter Northern California Coastal Region Information & Planning Coordinator American Red Cross [email protected] -- Internet-history mailing list [email protected] https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history - Unsubscribe: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9b6ef0621638436ab0a9b23cb0668b0b?The%20list%20to%20be%20unsubscribed%20from=Internet-history