On 2006-08-01 12:27:15 +0100, Huge said:

On 2006-08-01, Andy Hall wrote:


Nonsense. I recall many companies when updating would implement OSI and
have TCP/IP over it in preparation when for the next stage of updates.
Many ran OSI on their own backbone and TCP/IP on the smaller LANs.

Do name some.

I'll be amused if he can. I've been working in IT since the early
seventies, and the only contact I've had with X.25 has been tearing
it out and replacing it with TCP/IP. Can you even buy X.25 equipment
any more?

Quite.

It was reasonably popular in the early to mid 80s, but even then was
regarded as "legacy", mainly because telcos charged by the packet in
most cases (and they were small).

Occasionally one sees the odd information feed around carrying
specialised data for a specific industry sector, but that's about it.

I think it's still supported in IOS, but probably only through not
having ripped it out