That was a long post, saying something that I feel didn’t need as many words, but it is correct.
I learned the OSI model, and it was presented as “And THE LORD sayeth ‘LET THERE BE SEVEN LAYERS.’ And it was good...” and so forth. It was presented as “This is the way we do things.”
And I have never actually seen a true implementation of OSI “in the wild.” It was confusing.
It was useful, in helping me to look at communications in an organized fashion (I’ve written a fair bit of that kind of stuff), but in the same way that reading historical fiction teaches me about the Victorian Era.
I also learned X.400 as an exchange protocol. Folks these days, should give thanks at dinnertime that Professor Van Helsing drove a stake through that nightmare.
I normally don't mention the names of companies with which I worked in social media posts, but Dialcom has been dead a long time. I don't think it matters.
They also used PRIMOS. I worked in FORTRAN (4), PL/1, and C.
I learned the OSI model, and it was presented as “And THE LORD sayeth ‘LET THERE BE SEVEN LAYERS.’ And it was good...” and so forth. It was presented as “This is the way we do things.”
And I have never actually seen a true implementation of OSI “in the wild.” It was confusing.
It was useful, in helping me to look at communications in an organized fashion (I’ve written a fair bit of that kind of stuff), but in the same way that reading historical fiction teaches me about the Victorian Era.
I also learned X.400 as an exchange protocol. Folks these days, should give thanks at dinnertime that Professor Van Helsing drove a stake through that nightmare.