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From: mckenzie@BBNH.ARPA (Alex McKenzie)
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Subject: Re: ARPAnet Users' Forum at DECUS
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Date: Tue, 17-Dec-85 14:37:49 EST
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I don't know when it was true that "you could take the network down for a day
to test a new routing algorithm," but it certainly wasn't true by 1972, when I
became responsible for Network Operations.  It was true that we had a
2-hour/week time slot reserved for testing, but the users in those days would
never have accepted a one-day outage.

Alex McKenzie