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At 07:36 AM 6/5/97 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >It might be noted that both NASA and ESnet were originally primarily >DECnet networks as they pre-date IP development by a little bit. They >also, in there early forms (SPAN, HEPnet, and MFEnet) predate the >NSFnet. > It's also worth noting that DECNET was a leading contender for the NSFNET. Sid Karin, director of SDSC, tells the story that he was leaning toward DECNET until he met a taciturn Teutonic network engineer from Ann Arbor who convinced Sid among others that a TCP/IP backbone would work. --Kent
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