7 Feb
2019
7 Feb
'19
12:18 a.m.
From: Kevin Bowling
I think TCP was a success because of BSD/UNIX rather
than its own
merits.
Nope. The principle reason for TCP/IP's success was that it got there first,
and established a user community first. That advantage then fed back, to
increase the lead.
Communication protocols aren't like editors/OS's/yadda-yadda. E.g. I use
Epsilon - but the fact that few others do isn't a problem/issue for me. On the
other hand, if I designed, implemented and personally adopted the world's best
communication protocol... so what? There'd be nobody to talk to.
That's just _one_ of the ways that communication systems are fundamentally
different from other information systems.
Noel