DRECNET
/drek'net/ [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.Nearby terms:
dread high bit disease ♦ DREAM 6800 ♦ DRECNET ♦ drill down ♦ drill-down analysis
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