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From: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: source of TCP/IP (was I hope this wont ignite a major flame ...)
Date: 31 Jul 1994 14:34:31 -0500
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In article <31fd07$6pq@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
Donald Becker <becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>Wait a minute: that's not what I said.  I *don't* think ATM is a good
>solution.  I just don't think it going to fail for the right technical
>reasons (missing protocol details, hard unsolved datarate issues, etc)
>but rather it will never be considered because people can't run their
>existing network applications on it.

Why can't they?

If I can run an X application over a link that's got X.25 and PPP sections in
the middle, why would *anyone* have the slightest difficulty running ANY
networking application over ATM?