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From: torben@FORALIE.ICS.HAWAII.EDU (Torben Nielsen)
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Date: 10 Jun 90 06:44:41 GMT
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From Kwang Sung's diatribe....

>	Recently, I've proposed a new newsgroup "comp.protocols.migrate.to.iso".
>I've received so many responses. Among those, I've selected some best ones, 
>after I've thrown out some bad ones. 

Wouldn't do to let us read all of that garbage. ``No" votes truly are no good;
they should be discarded so we can have a fair poll here.....

Actually, I'm delighted you threw the following quote in there. Apparently
from someone inside DEC:

>>The major reason for a slower than expected transition to OSI is the installed
>>base.  TCP/IP is only a small part of the installed base with 1500 networks.
>>PC Lans total over 1 million networks, IBM SNA networks control hundreds of
>>thousands of terminals, DECnet has over 700,00 nodes (hosts and servers) and
>>DEC has sold 3,000,000 ethernet ports to 61k customers.

Can you say ``apples"? Now try ``oranges" and maybe ``pineapples".... Is this
the official DEC line explaining why the transition is going so slowly?

					Torben