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Re: OSI on Linux

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fons Botman)
Sat Jun 17 13:31:04 1995

To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 95 18:01:14 MET
From: Fons Botman <ND3995!botman@relay.NL.net>
In-Reply-To: <199506161858.LAA01824@orange.ConcordPacific.Com>; from "John Paul Morrison" at Jun 16, 95 11:58 am
Reply-To: botman@rabo.nl

> > Is anyone aware of any support for the OSI transport layer protocol 
> > (class 4 over inactive network layer in particular) for Linux?
> no
I am not.
Perhaps sunsite:/pub/Linux/system/Network/isode contains more info.

> > Is any work currently being done on the subject?

> Is anyone actually using OSI for anything other than teaching 
> computer protocols in University courses?
Yes.

I use TP4, I use Linux, I do not use OSI/TP4 in Linux.
I do not teach computer protocols in University courses. :-)

Rumour goes that OSI is/was slightly more popular in Europe than in the US.

Fons

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