[ih] X.25

Guy Almes galmes at tamu.edu
Thu Oct 2 06:02:10 PDT 2025


   In 1985-86, Rice University was connected via this X.25 CSnet service.
   We were paying $4,000 per month in "packet charges" (in addition to 
other CSnet charges) for a pretty good 9.6 kb/s Internet connection.

	-- Guy

On 10/2/25 8:27 AM, Dave Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
> On 10/2/2025 2:54 AM, Vint Cerf via Internet-history wrote:
>> in pre-NSFNET days, we ran IP over X.25 (Larry Landweber at University of
>> Wisconsin, Madison, had a role in that, as I recall).
>> I don't know whether Larry is on this list.
> 
> 
> CSNet originally had four project sites.  U Delaware and Rand did email
> relaying. U. Wisconsin did a directory service.  Purdue did the driver
> for IP over X.25.
> 
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