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}.