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Date:      Fri, 19 Jan 1996 16:40:43 -0600 (CST)
From:      mailing list account <lists@argus.flash.net>
To:        wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Windows 95 Compatability
Message-ID:  <199601192240.QAA03614@argus.flash.net>
In-Reply-To: <9601192220.AA11339@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Jan 19, 96 05:20:10 pm

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> > SIMTEL-20.WSMR.ARMY.MIL is no more...  what happened, did the Army/Congress
> > drop funding?  I haven't been able to get to simtel for a couple of years
> > now...
> 
> DEC wanted something like $20000/year to continue maintenance of the
> machine.  (Do you have any idea how hard it is to get KL-10 parts any
> more?)  That gave the Army the opportunity to determine that software
> distribution wasn't part of their mission, so they killed it off.

uheh.  i always wondered about that...  hey, i thought they were a
decsystem-20 running multics...

Jim
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