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Re: NY ranks #1 in Internet b/w


From: "Nipper, Arnold" <arnold () nipper de>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:07:46 +0100


steve wolff wrote:

Few folks I guess recall the dial-up line that ran westward from Beijing
to
Karlsruhe that functioned in the early-to-mid '80s.  It ran at 300 baud.
On
good days.  -s

Steve, sure I do and Arnold Nipper on the list will as well since he I
believe
implemented it... Was it not 9.6? Later is X.25........


Dave,

when I joined the team of Werner Zorn in '89 the "China connection" already
was well established.


-- Arnold
Dave, just for the records: IIRC it were Michael Rotert, Gerd Wacker and
Michael Finken (both now/still?? Conware) who set up the CSNET connection to
Beijing. Must have been1985 or so.


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