Re: RIPE DNS Hostcount July 1993

Piet.Beertema@mcsun.EU.net writes: * - DE is getting very close to be the first European country * to reach 100,000 machines. * With 90478 hosts the UK is also pretty close. * Interestingly, both countries once were X.25 * addicts where IP was a curse... :-) * Even more interesting is much (almost all in the UK case) still runs on top of X.25 infrastructure. Who says X.25 PLP is redundant (don't answer -- was a joke from someone who put a lot of the glue in place).

This is even more true for DE. And we probably will for better or worse likeley keep up with these traditioned way even longer than the UK. Some of us still have their fingers deep in this glue... Toerless