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From: orc@pell.com (Orc)
Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX)
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References: <30jqp1$ees@grex.cyberspace.org> <9408040155.38@rmkhome.com> <31u4ja$871@ivory.lm.com> <9408081643.04@rmkhome.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 1994 18:58:17 GMT
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In article <9408081643.04@rmkhome.com>, Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.com> wrote:
>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.
Don't know about MCI, but in the southwest (at least) Sprint has
its own fiber-optic lines, laid in part along the right of way of
the Southern Pacific Railroad.
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david parsons \bi/ And doesn't the M in MCI mean microwave?
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