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From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
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Subject: Re: Mourning of the passing of the ARPANET
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Date: 14 Jun 90 21:59:53 GMT
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In-Reply-To: kmeyer@wrl.dec.com's message of 14 Jun 90 21:26:30 GMT

In article <1990Jun14.212630.26295@wrl.dec.com> kmeyer@wrl.dec.com (Kraig Meyer) writes:

   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.

it's also a bit ironic that Merit schools are going to get off of the
class A net number and onto their own class B net(s), at least for
the parts of Merit which will no longer be behind the PDP-11 based
backbone structure (the design which required the class A net in
the first place).   such a shame, I just printed up my Network 35
ID card....

--Ed

Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept <emv@math.lsa.umich.edu>
"i hear pdp-11's make good flowerpots"