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From: jaw@sesun.jpl.nasa.gov (Joe Wieclawek)
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Subject: Interoperability?
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Date: 7 Dec 90 23:15:02 GMT
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We must be doing something wrong.

This was in December 3,1990 Network World, Volume7,Number 49 "The
Newsweekly of User Networking Strategies":

Article on page 1: "MAP/TOP group charts new course" by Ellen
Messmer
(paragraph 12)
	Bride* said a network manager interconnecting a large
multivendor TCP/IP installation will discover that vendors
have implemented TCP/IP differently and interoperability
is unattainable. "You can"t build a national and international
network using TCP/IP," Bride said.

	* Laurie Bride, manager of network architecture at
Boeing Computer Services Co.


Joe Wieclawek                   jaw@sesun.Jpl.Nasa.Gov
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