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From: reden@sys1.TANDY.COM
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Subject: Re: Press Release
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Date: 17 Jul 88 01:49:00 GMT
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Nf-From: sys1.TANDY.COM!reden    Jul 16 20:49:00 1988


>It has never been DEC's intention to exist "peacefully" in the multi vendor
>environment.  They wzant to be the hub of the multi vendor network.

That's what worries me about OSI.  I think that a true - everybody can talk
to anybody - network will still be a pipe dream. (other than TCP/IP) 

      I thought X Windows would standardize terminal communications.  I
recenetly attended a DECWindows seminar and guess what X uses for             
communications........ a DECNET object.  I aggree that this procedure  is 
the "proper" way to do such a thing but I bet if I had a Sun workstation running
DECNET and X the SUN couldn't be a X server for the VAX.  At least not without
figuring out how DEC's X network object works and writing one for the SUN. 

     The idea is going the right way, but I can't see vendors getting togeather
without adding "enhancments" to screw it all up. 
Robert                                                          reden@sys1.uucp