On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:25:05 GMT, "George Copeland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"David Debono" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > >> I think that the relevance was that these dissonent systems of >> interconnectivity. email and such like, were brought together, >> struggling, and unified in a disjointed manner. > >Before TCP/IP, such systems could only be interconnected with custom >software, so it only happened piecemeal. When networks moved to TCP/IP, all >things became possible. :-) I think that is a bit simplistic. When TCP/IP was shoehorned on-top of these other systems a type of interconnectivity was achieved getting progressively better as the old systems gradually died out. Did you ever use a product called Novix? TCP/IP over/along with IPX/SPX? Yeuch! Take care David D. The Mediaeval Combat Society The Historical Reenactment Web Site http://www.montacute.net/histrenact/welcome.htm
