[ih] X.25

[Dave Crocker]

On 10/13/2025 5:12 AM, John Day via Internet-history wrote:
> As you know, X.25 only defined the*interface* between a “DCE” (host) and a “DTE” (router). The network could do anything it wanted in between


indeed.

and just to get this said explicitly on the list, that means any 
instance of an X.25 network had to be single-vendor, since it was 
certain each vendor at least had quirks that were not interoperable.

d/

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