I remember DECnet phase V bringing a VAX to its knees just implementing the network stack, let alone an app. And required extensive configuration at every layer
Not to mention committee produced protocol level fun like the Transport layer having 5 mutually incompatible Transport protocols On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 12:26 pm, Tim Hogard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Feb 27, 2020, at 12:10 PM, Malcolm Herbert <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, at 11:24, Tim Hogard wrote: > >>> On Feb 26, 2020, at 9:31 AM, Malcolm Herbert <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Memorex, MRX IV, 6250 BPI with a hand-written label "ISODE v2.0" ... > looks to be about 2400ft, so that's a whopping 193MB if it has 9 tracks on > it ... > >> > >> There are embarrassing things I would admit to in public. > >> > >> Having an 9 track tape with ISODE on it is not one of them. > > > > ... in my innocence, I have no idea why this is a good thing or bad ... > what is ISODE? > > Is is software to do the ISO layer stuff that isn't TCP/IP. The idea was > to develop a standard for > ISO layer 3 to 5 but it suffered from spec growth. It came out of the ITU > and it was very expensive > when if 1st came out. We are talking that it make Oracle look cheap. It > also would work for things > like IPX over X.25 over IPX and that sort of stuff was not discouraged. > > It includes things like X.400 and X.500. X.500 email systems make > sendmail.cf look simple. The > license for a single email server would have been around $50,000 with > $20,000 a year. > > You may recognize parts that ended up in LDAP and certificate names. > The X.400 naming stuff is where stuff like " C=US, ST=Washington, > L=Redmond, O=Microsoft > Corporation, OU=Microsoft IT, CN=Microsoft IT TLS CA 5"comes from. > > Line per line, it is some of the most evil code I've seen. > > > -tim > > > _______________________________________________ > msosug mailing list > [email protected] > http://mexico.purplecow.org/m/listinfo/msosug > Delivered for: [email protected] >
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