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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX)
Date: 9 Aug 94 06:15:59 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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Message-ID: <michaelv.776412959@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
References: <30jqp1$ees@grex.cyberspace.org> <9407311519.45@rmkhome.c <mrg.775754000@dynamo> <9408040155.38@rmkhome.com> <31u4ja$871@ivory.lm.com> <9408081643.04@rmkhome.com>
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In <9408081643.04@rmkhome.com> rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) writes:
>Peter G. Berger (peterb@telerama.lm.com) wrote:
>: In article <9408040155.38@rmkhome.com>, Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.com> wrote:
>: >Well, if AT&T dies, the USENET dies, as they own all the leased lines
>: >in the US.
>: No, they don't.
>: Not even *close*.
>The telephone infrastructure of the US is based primarily on the AT&T
>long distance trunk lines. MCI, Sprint, etc lease the use of these lines
>from AT&T.
Then how did Sprint manage to get all those coast-to-coast fiber lines
before anyone else, way back when? Hmmm...
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free Un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
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