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Unnamed Administration sources reported that Michael Dillon said: > > Let's see, we can put in 3 big stations: one in an old mill in > > the Boston area, another in Arlington VA, and a third at ihnp4.. > > Explain, please. The first sounds like where DEC started out. Is the > second MAE-East? And while I recognize ihnp4 as one of the central UUCP > nodes I never knew what or where it was. Sigh.... {To stop the flood of "huh?" email} Several googlebytes ago, there was no "Net" but rather a loose confederation of UUCP-linked sites. They called each other up with dial-up phone lines and {gasp} modems every night and swapped mail and netnews. But to reach someone, you had to go though someone else. The big three Someone's were: decvax, at the Old Mill [DEC Hq] in Medford seismo; the Center for Seismic Studies [whose interest was not earthquakes, but nuclear explosions..] run by a guy named Rick Adams. ihnp4; Indian Point, a Bell System [remember THAT?] plant in Illinois, or was it Indiana... Thus my comment was a backhand way of saying "The more things change..." -- A host is a host from coast to [email protected] & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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