drecnet

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drecnet - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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.
  

drecnet - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 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.