[131740] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lynda)
Tue Nov 2 15:53:19 2010
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:51:22 -0700
From: Lynda <shrdlu@deaddrop.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <025520FF-8815-4CB1-B586-27BEFF1134F4@gizmopartners.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11/2/2010 12:43 PM, Chris Boyd wrote:
>
> On Nov 1, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>
>> And FDDI and X.25 and every single legacy protocol
> Are there still any commercial X.25 nets in operation? I had some
> peripheral involvement with Tymnet in the MCI/Concert conversion, and
> hear it shut down sometime in 2003-4.
I can say that there are, yes. They are in some gov't and quasi-gov't
installations, but they were there, last I looked (and that was very
recent). There are probably others, too, but I don't normally look for
such things.
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if you burn down the haystack and scan the ashes
with a metal detector.
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