From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 12 11:52:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA22693 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:52:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA22685 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:52:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA20616; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 12:47:50 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602121947.MAA20616@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: CCITT support in current To: sandy@lapkin.rosprint.ru (Sandy Kovshov) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 12:47:50 -0700 (MST) Cc: lehey.pad@sni.de, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <311F5B56.FF6D5DF@lapkin.rosprint.ru> from "Sandy Kovshov" at Feb 12, 96 03:23:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > It looks like FreeBSD would be the ideal vehicle for a Minitel server, > > but it would mean getting the X.25 up to scratch (and conformant with > > Transpac, which is based on the 1980 standard). I remember reading a > > while back that somebody was working on this--are you listening, > > somebody? In any case, is anybody else interested in development in > > this direction? > > Of course I'm still workin in this direction. But I think what > nobody wants to use it. So it comes to be a private project because > nobody interesting with support for old (?) protocols :( I disagree. The more support the better. I think the recent attempt to get rid of XNS is ill-considered. There are still a lot of XNS terminal servers out there. They are critically cheap for a startup ISP. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.