[ih] X.25

[Dave Crocker]

On 10/1/2025 3:33 PM, William Westfield via Internet-history wrote:
> Sure, but there were any number of services (tymnet, telenet) offering local-dialup PAD connections as a substitute for long-distance modem connections.

I'm not saying it wasn't useful.  It was cheaper than the very high long 
distance dial-up rates charged back then.

But it meant no flexibility of peer-to-peer services and that there was 
a basic difference between user attachments and host attachments.


>    AFAIR, direct X.25 connections (which would have required synchronous “leased lines”) were relatively rare.

As I recall, they were expensive and maybe more tech/ops hassle.

d/

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