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From: sam@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Sam Neely)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: compuserve
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Date: 20 May 91 18:44:02 GMT
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In article <9105201208.AA22490@tuatara.uofs.edu> bill@TUATARA.UOFS.EDU (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
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>>    and so why isn't compuserv interested in this
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>> I don't know.  For one thing, though, their hosts don't speak IP.
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>Unless things have changed drastically since the last article I read about
>Compuserve, they are running PRIME Mini's.

Actually, CompuServe uses Dec-10 based technology running a variant
of TOPS-10.

>   And if the interest was there, there is always the milking-machine 
>approach with terminal servers.  I would imagine the reasons are more
>political/philosophical than technical.

At this point, you run into the NSFnet acceptable use policy which
states "Thou shalt not use the NSFnet for commercial use."  CompuServe
would have to block most sites.

	- Sam