From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jun 29 19:02:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA02006 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 19:02:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA01962 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 19:02:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id QAA20168 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 16:47:37 -0700 Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.7.5/CET-v2.1) with SMTP id XAA08696; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 23:45:08 GMT Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 08:45:08 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Michael Smith cc: "Jacob M. Parnas" , stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua, Kevin_Swanson@blacksmith.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Subject: Re: muliport boards - building a PPP dialup server In-Reply-To: <199606290710.QAA20610@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 29 Jun 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > This is just stupid. Look at the huge installed base of 14k and 28k > modems, and the phenomenal cost of ISDN services in most of the world. Japan is one of the places where it's relatively cheap. Of course the cost of using a regular telephone line is outrageous compared to what we are used to in the US. mike