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Re: join the Internet Backbone

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Rosenberg)
Fri Apr 5 00:22:13 1996

Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 22:20:37 -0700 (MST)
From: Kevin Rosenberg <kevin@cyberport.com>
To: Christian Nielsen <cnielsen@vii.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960404215312.677C-100000@lonepeak.vii.com>

> 	And all the sites here in Utah, as Salt lake is the Main Link,
> they use 56k links and MUX and De-MUX all the 28.8 modems, which gives
> them no TCP/IP accross the link, no resending of lost packets, and than
> they say they can put 50 dial-ups on that line... Oh well.

I'm not sure if they are MUXing and DeMUXing here, but they do have
18 modems on one 56K line. I wonder where they learned their arithmetic?

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