On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Ricky Beam wrote:

The death of Novell NetWare (and their transitioned to IP) killed it the enterprise. Games adopting IP for network play killed it in the home.

Ultimately, it sucks as a WAN protocol, so the internet was built using this new fangled IP thing.

There are still isolated pockets of devices out there speaking IPX, DECnet, Appletalk, etc, but either they're not connected to the 'Internet', or their traffic passes through other devices that encapsulate and de-encapsulate it in IP to allow it to be transported.

jms

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