-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 25/09/12 20:19, Andrew Holway wrote:
[OSI] > [...] It was part of a standards framework developed by some weird > ISO sub group back in the mid 80s for an application stack that was > never used. Substitute "should never have been used" for "was never used" and I'll agree. :-) > People have then kinda munged together OSI and TCP and other > application stuff to make some horrific stupid mess that should be > consigned to a history book. > > Ever heard of FTAM, X.400 or CMIP? Yes, I have to admit to getting ISODE and PP going under SunOS and SunLink7 for just that sort of horrible mess over X.25 when the UK academic network (JANET) was still tied to the goal of becoming OSI rather than going TCP/IP. Back in the day when the UKMM list argued about transitioning from UK to GB. All I'll say on that matter is to quote: gb. 360000 IN TXT "This domain is frozen and will be phased out" If X.400 email had happened we'd all have A4 business cards.. cheers, Chris - -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBjw/EACgkQO2KABBYQAh+cAwCfaHi234KKBrmfYrbTkSPwd7bO 7wkAnRzfS101uxQBJyGtwk4Gb7z7M6pL =6Pk7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf