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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: X on dial-in
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In article <3h9365$njt@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes:
>By defining framing and puting a frame-router in the central office
>that knows about building and tearing down links to other central
>offices.
>
>We can call it X.29.  8-).

Or names.. In the UK we called it names, lots of different rude names. Then
we got worried because OSI was the future (in some people's eyes), but
sanity has finally prevailed.

Alan


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