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Simon St.Laurent wrote, > If, as I suspect, this kind of routing starts out on top of an HTTP > (or even) IP foundation which can later be shifted to whatever seems > convenient, we may find that situation changing. I have to admit > that I marveled at how transparent the switchover from > NetBEUI/whatever to TCP/IP felt over successive versions of Windows. Right, but isn't the lesson of NetBEUI (and IPX and DECnet and AppleTalk) that proprietary protocols have a tough time surviving even in closed environments ... because the pressure to be not _completely_ closed is irresistable in almost all cases. Cheers, Miles
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