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Xref: sserve comp.sys.powerpc:34061 comp.sys.intel:31492 comp.unix.bsd:16126 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8147 comp.unix.sys5.r4:9225 comp.unix.misc:15994 comp.os.linux.development:23358 comp.os.linux.misc:35100 comp.os.386bsd.development:3179 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5337 comp.os.misc:3794 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!news.mindlink.net!giant!a09878 From: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.misc Subject: Re: X on dial-in Date: 11 Feb 1995 18:07:23 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! Communications Corp., Langley, BC, Canada Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3hiucr$613@deep.rsoft.bc.ca> References: <3f44s2$jqm@maverick.maverick.tad.eds.com> <D3ns6F.2w9@bonkers.taronga.com> <fgoldstein.156.00469051@bbn.com> <D3uD9t.6Fv@bonkers.taronga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: giant.mindlink.net In article <D3uD9t.6Fv@bonkers.taronga.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> wrote: >So there's no *technical* reason I couldn't call up the phone company and >say "I want to buy a chunk of 64Kbps low priority bandwidth" and have it >run anywhere from 0K to 64K depending on other load. Maybe it's only 10K >during the day, and bursty, or it gets a 5 second lag now and then when I >haven't sent any bits in a while.... There's no other reason you couldn't do that, either. Just call up AT&T, MCI, or some other telephone company and ask for Frame Relay. cjs -- Curt Sampson a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca Opinions are mine, Fluor Daniel Wright, Ltd. 604 488 2226 not Fluor Daniel's. 1075 W. Georgia Street Vancouver, B.C., V6E 4M7 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.