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Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy)
Tue Nov 2 19:17:52 2010
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 16:17:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Randy <randy_94108@yahoo.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org, Lynda <shrdlu@deaddrop.org>
In-Reply-To: <4CD06BBA.2060500@deaddrop.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
--- On Tue, 11/2/10, Lynda <shrdlu@deaddrop.org> wrote:
> From: Lynda <shrdlu@deaddrop.org>
> Subject: Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switch=
ing
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 12:51 PM
> On 11/2/2010 12:43 PM, Chris Boyd
> wrote:
> >=20
> > On Nov 1, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> >=20
> >> And FDDI and X.25 and every single legacy
> protocol
>=20
> > Are there still any commercial X.25 nets in
> operation?=A0 I had some
> > peripheral involvement with Tymnet in the MCI/Concert
> conversion, and
> > hear it shut down sometime in 2003-4.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> -- Finding a needle in a haystack is a lot easier
> if you burn down the haystack and scan the ashes
> with a metal detector.
> =A0 (Silicon Valley Tarot: Steve Jackson Games)
>=20
I don't doubt that, just like I am inclined to believe there are GDC Apex s=
witches on 4.0 with TAXI interfaces still in place.
