Back in the day before IP killed everything else, DECnet was nice.
As someone that used to work as a network engineer supporting IP, IPX, DECnet, Vines IP, and SNA over Ethernet, token ring, arcnet, FDDI, ATM, 100VG-Anylan, X.25, frame relay, ISDN and a variety of dedicated circuit types I am grateful that IP and Ethernet have killed almost everything else off. The network protocols were not always easy to have living together on the same network.
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As someone that used to work as a network engineer supporting IP, IPX, DECnet, Vines IP, and SNA over Ethernet, token ring, arcnet, FDDI, ATM, 100VG-Anylan, X.25, frame relay, ISDN and a variety of dedicated circuit types I am grateful that IP and Ethernet have killed almost everything else off. The network protocols were not always easy to have living together on the same network.