Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: The politics of groups (of people) Message-ID: <5991@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 17:55:34 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.5991 Posted: Wed Sep 25 17:55:34 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 17:55:34 EDT References: <1996@amdahl.UUCP>, <791@vortex.UUCP> <626@bu-cs.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 19 > ... a lot of > people sound like the backbone sites must be 1200B PDP11/34's with > RL02's and any solution has to satisfy that configuration. At least one backbone site (utzoo) *is* a PDP11/44 with Fujitsu Eagles. > How about > CD's? uWave links? T1? 9600B async modems w/ error correction? build > 'modems' with 680x0's in them... If you pay for it, we'll use it. But it took a damn long time just getting this place equipped with 1200-baud modems. I can just hear the reactions if I ask to spend N thousand dollars (even for not-too-large N) on something dedicated solely to netnews. Remember that news generally gets a free ride on equipment bought for other things -- the budget for news itself is ZERO at many places. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com