Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cimshop!davidm From: cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Networking (Re: Supercomputer Experiment vs Amiga) Message-ID: Date: 8 Oct 90 04:19:19 GMT References: <31879@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <6722@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: davidm@cimshop.UUCP Distribution: comp Organization: Consilium Inc., Mountain View, California. Lines: 19 In-reply-to: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com's message of 7 Oct 90 14:43:54 GMT In article <6722@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: ...which is why it would not be able to run on an OSI network. No great loss: OSI is not terribly important these days. But didn't DoD express interest in dropping TCP/IP in favor of OSI on the idea that the TCP/IP protocol had gone just about as far as it could whereas the OSI protocol would have more "extensive" features (not sure what, though)? I also thought, but am not sure, that the lower levels of both protocols had the ability to interconnect. -- ==================================================================== David Masterson Consilium, Inc. uunet!cimshop!davidm Mtn. View, CA 94043 ==================================================================== "If someone thinks they know what I said, then I didn't say it!"