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1. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)
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.
2. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
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.
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