[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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