Asdcarl.138 net.general utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!sdcarl!rusty Wed Jan 13 21:50:07 1982 Re: Local area networks From ucsfcgl!ucbvax!ihnss!houxi!houxd!houxc!hound!houti!houxt!houxn!houxg!lime!we13!rjk Tue Jan 12 15:48:47 1982 To: net.general Subject: Local area networks Article-ID: net.general/153 Yes, let's establish a net.localnets or whatever. With the move toward distributive processing seen throughout the industry and the drop (?) in the cost of machines, interconnection is becoming more and more of the problem. There may even be a need for two groups in this field: One for machine-to-machine networks and one for terminal-to-machine interconnection. Let's not include the Dimension in the second group. yes, and for the sake of Ken Arnold let's name it net.lan or even net.ln