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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
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Subject: [ibm-pc] Re: Alternatives to SIMTEL20
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Date: 6 Mar 90 03:22:06 GMT
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>>What's a good alternative anonymous FTP site for ibm-pc stuff besides
>>SIMTEL20?

>  I often use wuarchive.wustl.edu for ftping since it is usually much less
>busy, and has a UNIX file structure as opposed to the CP/M (I believe) of
                                                       ^^^^
well, no, it's TOPS-20, but CP/M was influenced by it!
>simtel20.

A good newsgroup to follow for this kind of information is 
comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d.  

I have had good results from grape.ecs.clarkson.edu, chyde.uwasa.fi,
mtsg.ubc.ca, hotel.cis.ksu.edu, and terminator.cc.umich.edu for PC stuff.

-- 
John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu             -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching 
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