Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!dog.ee.lbl.gov!lbl.gov!jnmoyne From: jnmoyne@lbl.gov (Jean-Noel MOYNE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Networking (Re: Supercomputer Experiment vs Amiga) Message-ID: <7503@dog.ee.lbl.gov> Date: 8 Oct 90 22:12:11 GMT Sender: usenet@dog.ee.lbl.gov Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 31 X-Local-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 90 15:12:11 PDT References:<31879@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <6722@sugar.hackercorp.com> 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. I'm sorry but I don't agree ! OSI is not dead ... OSI is starting, and if TCP/IP rules for the moment, wait a little, and you'll see. OSI is really the big deal now, for a few reasons: first, you now have implementations of OSI going out, and not lousy ones. Just take Digital's example. DECNET phase V will be released soon (6 months I belive) on both Ultrix and VMS. And DECNET phase V is OSI ! DEC invested a great deal in OSI networking, and so are a lot of big names, like cisco (and a lot of others). There is a another point why OSI is going to be great: GOSIP, in clear the governement people are now obligated to buy and to use only OSI stuff (this is the theorical part, the practical is: they are beginning to move to OSI now). TCP/IP is the most important suite for the moment, the Amiga has it now, that's great it can speak to all the other people. Now, the next move is toward OSI, and the Amiga should have at least one OSI implementation, you will soon see OSI networks popping up, and the Amiga shouldn't close the OSI door. JNM -- I write (badly) only my own opinions. " Just make it ! " Bo, in 'Bo knows UNIX'