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From: rich@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG (Richard Verjinski)
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Date: 25 May 90 14:29:53 GMT
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Craig Partridge writes...
> I've always felt that the best solution to the dial-up access problem
> was to make it easy for people to hook up their PC to your local Ethernet,
> get a temporary IP address (via some address assignment protocol) and
> voila, they are connected.  One could do similar things with a 
> 900 voice line [dial 1-900-ARPANET, negotiate for a temporary IP address,
> you're off].

> In other words, the key problem is making it easy for someone with a
> PC to get a local IP address and do something.

> Craig

While at Unisys, myself and others developed and implemented a system that 
did exactly what Craig describes... 

****
I feel it necessary to publicly acknowledge the persons
described as "others" in the above statement.

Those people are:  John Swanson, Jose Rodrigues, Jim O'Conner,
                   and Ed Yancy. 
I apologize for not mentioning each person explicitly.

Rich Verjinski