DRECNET

/dreknet/ , 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.

