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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/06/2013 8:41 PM, Chris Chaundy
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I should know some history here because I was on the AARNet
Technical Committee and network coordinator for the operation
of the AARNet International, national and Victorian hubs
during the early 90's at the University of Melbourne, starting
with 48Kbps links around the state and the country, and a 56K
international link (grand days when the 48K links were
upgraded to Megalinks with Saturn modems and the internal link
went up to 256K and then 768K around this time). Of course,
Robert Elz along with Geoff Huston and Peter Elford were the
key drivers for much of the original impetus.<br>
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That upgrade of the international link to 768k made Nettrek run sooo
much smoother! Thanks Chris :-)<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:09 PM, John
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Ahhh the old days of Trumpet Winsock, Netscape and
Terminal.. Back then it was a three horse dial up race
between Ozemail, OnAustralia/MSN/Bigpond and Microplex in
the retail channel selling access cards. <br>
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...and the older days, when SLIP was the access protocol of choice,
before PPP and DHCP were created (I wrote a commercial RARP and
BOOTP server for automated IP address allocation, right before DHCP
was documented), and NCSA Mosaic was threatening to overturn WAIS
'browsers' - before Netscape was created, and well before Mr
Turnbull got involved in OZEmail.<br>
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Turnbull didn't even invent OzEmail, let alone the Internet. Then
again, Abbott is no Bill Gates.<br>
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