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In article <1990May6.112207.711@urz.unibas.ch>, Reinhard doelz@urz.unibas.ch
writes that there are unresolvable problems in joining sufficiently complex
prexisting DECnet networks into a single one, and he's right about that.
Luckily it is only quite recently in computing history that this has ever been
a problem, and OSI/DECnet Phase V networking will solve it, at a certain cost
in complexity and network management.

However, I do take issue mildly with the statement that DECnet is intended only
for LANs -- that idea would be quite a shock to the users of Digital's internal
network, Easynet, which today has well over 50,000 registered nodes on all
continents except Antarctica.  (But maybe we're there, too.  I didn't bother to
check seriously.)  This message, for instance, will be posted from a machine
several non-LAN hops from where I sit.

---Pete

kaiser@cheese.enet.dec.com
+1 508 480 4345 (machine: +1 617 641 3450)