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Networking's 50 greatest arguments. A look at the all-time greatest controversies in the history of the network industry
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Networking's 50 greatest arguments

By nobody , Network World , 10/26/2007
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Perhaps the only thing more fun than working on and playing with network technologies is arguing about them. Macs vs. PCs. Ethernet vs. Token Ring. Outsourcing vs. keeping it in-house. Here's our take on the nastiest, most colorful and in some cases, still unresolved network industry arguments. Read up and weigh in.

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XNS vs. TCPBy Anonymous on October 10, 2008, 1:15 pmThis was a very real challenge in the early 1980s. If Xerox hadn't licen$ed the higher layers (e.g., clearinghouse) and pissed-off the 802.3 IEEE committee, IP...

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Circuit Switched v/s Packet SwitchedBy Anonymous on August 27, 2008, 2:51 amAnother one

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ATM v/s IPBy Anonymous on August 27, 2008, 2:51 amWhat about ATM v/s IP? I would think that would be way up on top.

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Oh, wellBy Adam Gaffin on February 13, 2008, 1:23 pmCP/M vs. MS-DOS.

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You forgot PHP 4 vs. PHP 5.By Anonymous on February 13, 2008, 11:20 amYou forgot PHP 4 vs. PHP 5.

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