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From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
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> <michaelv.776412959@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
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Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 03:56:21 GMT
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Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@iastate.edu) wrote:
: 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...

How is it that Sprint customers in some parts of the country are told that
my phone number, which has AT&T as the long distance carrier, doesn't exist?

The current NSF backbone is AT&T.

Soon It will be MCI.  At that point a new Internet will spring up or we'll
all pay MCI by the byte.


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Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  rmk@bedford.progress.com