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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Internet/NSFNet proposal to be run by IBM -- call to action!
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Date: 30 Oct 90 23:11:57 GMT
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>Since when was $2000/month cheap?

We were talking about NFSNet. Your "common man" can't connect to it at all.
If you're talking about 1.544Mbps worldwide TCP/IP connections, with routing,
nameservice, and network administration all done for you, $2000 per month is
very cheap. And the price will continue to drop.

On-the-order-of $100 per month Internet access is out there, too. Isn't that
what PSI is doing? But you aren't going to support a supercomputer or several
hundred sessions off that.

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