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DRECNET: /drek´net/, n. [from Yiddish/German ‘dreck’, meaning filth] Deliberate
distortion of DECNET, a networking protocol used in the
VMS community. So called because
DEC helped write the Ethernet specification and then
(either stupidly or as a malignant customer-control tactic) violated that
spec in the design of DRECNET in a way that made it incompatible. See also
connector conspiracy.
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