8 Jun
1997
8 Jun
'97
6:45 p.m.
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