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From: howard@cos.com (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: What services does X.25 provide?
Summary: Telenet relationship
Keywords: x.25, services, login, e-mail, file transfer, IPC
Message-ID: <23232@cos.com>
Date: 11 Oct 89 16:08:12 GMT
References: <796@maxim.erbe.se> <3279@wasatch.utah.edu> <522@wet.UUCP> <14858@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems, McLean, VA
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In article <14858@haddock.ima.isc.com>, jimm@haddock.ima.isc.com (Jim McGrath) writes:
> In article <23189@cos.com> howard@cos.com (Howard C. Berkowitz) writes:
> >There are a variety of solutions to this problem, including transport
> >relays.  The definitive solution is still evolving.  Note that
> >X.25 over LANs is used in Europe as a circumvention to this
> >difficulty.
> >-- 
> Prime Computer runs X.25 over their proprietary Ringnet LAN, as well
> as providing X.25 service over WANs.

An interesting historical note here is that the first generation
of Telenet switches used Prime minicomputers rather than especially
designed packet switches.  Prime was closely involved, therefore,
in the initial U.S. public network implementation of X.25 (1976).

Prime machines are still used for Telenet network control centers
(a specific set of functions as opposed to a place or organization),
and, in large systems, use X.25 over the Prime LAN for interprocessor
communications.
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