--- On Tue, 11/2/10, Lynda <shr...@deaddrop.org> wrote:
> From: Lynda <shr...@deaddrop.org> > Subject: Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching > To: nanog@nanog.org > Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 12:51 PM > On 11/2/2010 12:43 PM, Chris Boyd > wrote: > > > > On Nov 1, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: > > > >> And FDDI and X.25 and every single legacy > protocol > > > Are there still any commercial X.25 nets in > operation? I had some > > peripheral involvement with Tymnet in the MCI/Concert > conversion, and > > hear it shut down sometime in 2003-4. > > I can say that there are, yes. They are in some gov't and > quasi-gov't installations, but they were there, last I > looked (and that was very recent). There are probably > others, too, but I don't normally look for such things. > > -- Finding a needle in a haystack is a lot easier > if you burn down the haystack and scan the ashes > with a metal detector. > (Silicon Valley Tarot: Steve Jackson Games) > I don't doubt that, just like I am inclined to believe there are GDC Apex switches on 4.0 with TAXI interfaces still in place.