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On Fri, 30 May 2025 09:23:58 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> Isn't DNA the equivalent of SNA?

DECnet was always a proper peer-to-peer network. SNA, for about the first 
decade or so of its official existence, was not. It was only in the 
mid-1980s that IBM discovered what everybody else knew -- that 
“networking” wasn’t about having a bunch of remote subordinates being 
controlled by a central mainframe.