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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] ISP :new to ISDN : Pointers?
Date: 23 Jun 1996 13:53:42 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:

> On the other hand, FR is available *everywhere*, through
> inter-LADA, if nothing else.

Hahaha.

Guess why the German FreeBSDers are so eager about ISDN support?  Not
for its technical merits, but since it's the *only* available
technology for this kind of traffic here, besides the sluggish and
even more expensive X.25, or the unaffordable (and still not widely
available) ATM.

You wrote ``everywhere'', not ``everywhere in US''.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)