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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>DRECNET</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dread-questionmark-disease.html" title="dread questionmark disease"/><link rel="next" href="driver.html" title="driver"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">DRECNET</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dread-questionmark-disease.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="driver.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="DRECNET"/><dt xmlns="" id="DRECNET"><b>DRECNET</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/drek´net/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from Yiddish/German ‘dreck’, meaning filth] Deliberate
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distortion of DECNET, a networking protocol used in the
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<a href="../V/VMS.html"><i class="glossterm">VMS</i></a> community. So called because
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<a href="DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> helped write the Ethernet specification and then
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(either stupidly or as a malignant customer-control tactic) violated that
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spec in the design of DRECNET in a way that made it incompatible. See also
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<a href="../C/connector-conspiracy.html"><i class="glossterm">connector conspiracy</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dread-questionmark-disease.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="driver.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dread questionmark disease </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> driver</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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