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From: boomer@athena.mit.edu (Don Alvarez)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Some alternatives to OSI
Summary: gramar free context :-)
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Date: 3 May 89 20:42:43 GMT
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In article <12490838760.31.PADLIPSKY@A.ISI.EDU> PADLIPSKY@A.ISI.EDU (Michael Padlipsky) writes:
>Nice metaphor ... BUT everybody knows why Presentation is there (where
>everybody = all Old Network Boys, who, because they understand both Telnet
>and how the NVT notion was used in FTP, readily grok doing virtualization/
>devirtualization in a modular fashion, even if they don't think it should
>be a mandatorily separate layer that mechanizes it [and given things like
>the Common ASE, neither, apparently, do some key New Network Kids]).

Yow! anybody want to diagram that one?

(Talk about groking layered virtualization/devirtualization in a modular
fashion!  Holy parenthesis, batman!)