On Wednesday, February 02, 2011 05:04:33 pm Mark Andrews wrote: > They didn't fail. They were designed to complement each other. It > just that somewhere along the way people forgot that.
My engineer brain looks at it this way: "The better is the enemy of the good." (Voltaire: "Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien."). I remember thinking back in my NetWare 2.x days that this thing called IP just needed the simplicity of IPX, with its native Layer 3 use of the MAC address..... boy, was I naive back then. Bridged ethernet across 56K leased lines with NetWare servers at the other end.... 3Com NetBuilders, and Vitalink's TransLAN III Bridges, I think. Been a long time. The TransLAN III device did the AUI interface to the 10Base5 LAN segments, IIRC.
