"der.hans" <PLUGd@LuftHans.com> wrote:

> anybody got some good examples of failed prop protocols?
>
> Examples:
> DECnet

Hey now. DEC probably failed for trying to adopt OPEN standards (OSI). Their
proprietary stuff was quite successful in it's day. In fact, there are still
plenty of occasions where I have to accomodate LAT for one reason or
another. If you're going to write off DECnet that way, you have to include
SNA (IBM) and IPX (Novell), although they too were quite successful at one
time. Don't forget that Novell and AT&T proposed an "internet alternative"
(name forgotten) that would supercede the Internet.

> the 56k modem standards prior to standardization
> html "standards" that issued from companies/browsers rather than the W3C

Sony's 3 inch diskette standard
LS-120 zip disk alternative based on IDE interface (possible argument here)
MCA IBM's Microchannel

I dunno, maybe you're after more protocol-oriented. I guess you COULD
include OSI if you want, at least up to layer 4.

- Bob