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Date:      Sun, 21 Jan 1996 23:53:37 -0600 (CST)
From:      mailing list account <lists@argus.flash.net>
To:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Windows 95 Compatability
Message-ID:  <199601220553.XAA03681@argus.flash.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960121032818.591E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Jan 21, 96 03:29:37 am

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> > SIMTEL-20.WSMR.ARMY.MIL is no more...  what happened, did the Army/Congress
> > drop funding?  I haven't been able to get to simtel for a couple of years
> > now...
> 
> Try oak.oakland.edu instead, or a local mirror.  
> 
> simtel was bought out by Coast Communications Inc some time ago.   
> Besides that, the root simtel machine was a bear to use I heard...

not really, just S-L-O-W...  it didn't used to be too bad, but by the early
90's it was almost as slow as accessing ftp.uni-paderborn.de [home of the 60 
baud FTP] was then, or ftp.uu.net is today.

Jim
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