This obviously won't make sense to anyone that doesn't remember Novell and its network protocol, IPX, but, anyway...
From: ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu (Simon E Spero)
Newsgroups: info.ietf
Subject: Re: osi vs tcp/ip (fwd)
Date: 3 Dec 93 04:16:03 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
“ The only way I can see those figures making sense is if they are assuming that TUBA is selected as the IPNG. Otherwise the primary ecological niches are occupied. Mass extinctions are unlikely, as IP was designed to survive comet strikes, and IPX, being the networked equivalent of the cockroach, is unlikely to be eradicated. ”
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