"Steve Firth" wrote in message
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On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 10:59:54 +0100, Andy Hall wrote:

On 2006-08-01 08:15:17 +0100, Steve Firth said:

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 08:00:31 +0100, Andy Hall wrote:

The U.S. government DoD attempted to mandate it in the form of GOSIP
for all environments from 1990 onwards. That never happened

Um, not quite. I've been using GOSIP for the last few years and it's
only
now that the network in question is to be converted to TCP/IP.

Do you mean the US or UK one?

UK. Like X25, it's one of those pups sold to government by over-eager
academics

X.25 was the standard packet switched protocal used all over the world by
the PTTs.