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From: steve@cise.nsf.gov (Stephen Wolff)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Mourning of the passing of the ARPANET
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Date: 14 Jun 90 17:06:23 GMT
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> Oh, come now. Nobody's big enough to need a class A network. Entities
> that have class A networks now didn't get them because they've got big
> networks; they got them for political reasons. MIT and Stanford were
> big with DARPA. MERIT runs NSFNET.

Merit had net 35 a long time before there was an NSFNET.  Don't forget that
the Merit Computer Network grew up contemporaneously with the ARPANET - and
seems likely to outlast it by some time.  -s