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DRECNET
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/dreknet/ , n. [from Yiddish/German dreck , meaning filth] Deliberate
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distortion of DECNET, a networking protocol used in the VMS community. So
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called because DEC helped write the Ethernet specification and then (either
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stupidly or as a malignant customer-control tactic) violated that spec in
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the design of DRECNET in a way that made it incompatible. See also connector
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conspiracy.
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