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bdunbar on July 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why couldn't MAC addresses be used instead of IPv4...

and never took off.

IPX was everywhere NetWare was.

NetWare got into everything, like dust, in the 80s and part of the 90s.

astrodust on July 25, 2012 [–]

Being prevalent, which it no doubt was, and being pervasive are two different things.

IP has a way of worming itself into every little thing. IPX never really escaped from the desktop network environment.

bdunbar on July 26, 2012 | [–]

I did not know that pervasive was synonym for 'took off'.

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