drecnet

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

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}.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

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}.

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