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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