Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 19:42:13 +0200 (MET DST) From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org> To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X25 Message-ID: <199608301742.TAA25366@tetard.glou.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <199608301531.LAA28825@etinc.com> from Dennis at "Aug 30, 96 11:31:41 am"
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Dennis écrit / writes: > > If only France could move away from X25... *sigh* With the > > admistrative, government and transpac needs, it'll be around for at > > least another half-decade... > > > > France had a usable network long before most other places...you can blast X.25 > now, but you never saw the kind of packet loss you do on overloaded routers > today, just slow downs (which is what should happen). It's just that I saw what happened in France when the Minitel (public low-end, freely available, Videotex 1200bps/75bps asymetric terminals) showed up. We were in advance of everybody for 5 years. But when IP showed up, the government and industry lobby shot it down consistently, babbling something about "unreliable". Fine -- X25 was reliable. Now we're 5 years late :-) The problem with most > existing X.25 networks is that they're using old, archaic equipment with slow > processors and not enough memory. Of course the other issue is that X.25 > seemed to be a bit too complicated to implement for most......as theres a > LOT of really terrible code out there...... You bet. Also, the equipment was *way* overpriced (i.e.: to discourage personal experimentation) as was documentation. Apart from that I agree -- X25 is kind of like Token Ring: it does have SOME uses <grin>. -- Phil -- -[ Philippe Regnauld / regnauld@eu.org / +55.4N +11.3E @ Sol3 / +45 31241690 ]- -[ "To kårve or nøt to kårve, that is the qvestion..." -- My sister ]-
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