Re: Why don't Most network implementations follow the OSI model?

From: Barry Margolin (barmar@genuity.net)
Date: 04/22/02 

From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:28:39 GMT

In article <aa12db$ika$1@aquila.mdx.ac.uk>, <david20@alpha1.mdx.ac.uk> wrote:
>The other problem that the OSI standards had was that they were trying to
>replace an established system (TCP/IP which had been in existence for on the
>order of 20 years)

FYI, the Internet is not yet 20 years old. The flag day when we all
switched from the NCP-based Arpanet to the TCP/IP-based Internet was
January 1, 1983. The OSI protocols were being developed around the same
time as the Arpanet designers were experimenting with the new TCP/IP
protocols. 

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