DRECNET

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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 (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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}.