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From: kmeyer@wrl.dec.com (Kraig Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Mourning of the passing of the ARPANET
Message-ID: <1990Jun14.212630.26295@wrl.dec.com>
Date: 14 Jun 90 21:26:30 GMT
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In article <1990Jun14.082236.16832@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner) writes:
||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.

For the record, Merit had its class A net number long before it had
even considered running NSFnet.  The network number Merit got for NSFnet 
was a class B net number.

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Kraig Meyer                                                kmeyer@wrl.dec.com
On parole from the University of Southern California.     All views expressed
are my own and may or may not be the same as those of Digital Equipment Corp.