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From: kre@munnari.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: OSI-model software
Message-ID: <1713@munnari.oz>
Date: Sat, 20-Jun-87 14:05:26 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 20 14:05:26 1987
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Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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In article <354@sol.ARPA>, ken@rochester.arpa (Ken Yap) writes:
> Several years ago Telecom Australia
> announced Austpac, a datagram service to be charged by the octet. Don't
> know if it took off though.

Not like that it didn't .. Austpac exists, but charges the same way
essentially all other X.25 networks do, by segment (1 .. 64 octets)
and by time.

Incidentally, the x.25 nets that charge by segments (and time) are
generally much cheaper than the odd one that charges by octets, as
long as you're rational in your use of the resources .. if you send
1 character packets, you lose big, but so you should, those things
(on any network) are very wasteful of resources.

kre