On 2006-08-01 17:44:57 +0100, Huge said:

On 2006-08-01, Andy Hall wrote:
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.

Which reminds me, Reuters Select Feed used to be X.25, but it's
been some years since I had anything to do with that, so it may well
no longer be. Certainly, the feed handler promptly converted it
to TCP/IP, so the customer never saw it.

Mmm... I was thinking of some of the older financial data feeds - IIRC
in some of the commodity markets...