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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].
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