Re: RIPE DNS Hostcount July 1993
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To: "Tony Bates" <Tony.Bates@localhost
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From: Toerless Eckert <Toerless.Eckert@localhost
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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 14:59:05 MET DST
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Cc: Piet.Beertema@localhost, Marten.Terpstra@localhost, cerf@localhost, ripe-list@localhost
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Organisation: CSD IMMD IV, University of Erlangen, Germany
> Piet.Beertema@localhost writes:
> * - DE is getting very close to be the first European country
> * to reach 100,000 machines.
> * With 90478 hosts the UK is also pretty close.
> * Interestingly, both countries once were X.25
> * addicts where IP was a curse... :-)
> *
> Even more interesting is much (almost all in the UK case) still runs on top
> of X.25 infrastructure. Who says X.25 PLP is redundant (don't answer --
> was a joke from someone who put a lot of the glue in place).
This is even more true for DE. And we probably will for better or worse
likeley keep up with these traditioned way even longer than the UK. Some
of us still have their fingers deep in this glue...
Toerless