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
