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Jim Segrave (jes@jes.demon.co.uk) said,
        in message <9511010924.AA18027@jes.demon.co.uk>:

> In article <19951005.225437.13@compton.demon.co.uk>,
> Tom Hughes <tom@compton.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >I was unaware of this at the time, as Demon didn't bother to
> >announce it...
> 
> just checked demon.announce:
> [...]
> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 23:52:47 +0100 (BST)
> [...announcement of Ascend lines...]

Well to be fair, I think the Ascend lines moved into mainstream
use before that announcement, hence Tom's comment.  I certainly
remember thinking so at the time.  I can't prove it though 'coz my
newsbase only goes back to the 2nd of October!  I have a feeling
that they went in over the weekend before the 2nd though.

However the announcement of Ascend lines was buried in a report
about KA9Q, and what transpired in Malcom's follow-on post in the
various support groups, to be an obscure PPP bug.  Not
unsurprisingly I, and probably Tom missed the "Ascend" part of the
post thinking, "Oh; KA9Q has PPP problems - doesn't affect us".

It was long after they were brought into service, that an
announcement was made that the Ascends didn't support CSLIP. 10th
of October, by your good self Jim.  The only previous comment
about CSLIP that I remember was one made by Giles (I believe) in
demon.service while the lines were in beta.  But that doesn't
exactly count as an announcement ;)


Apologies to the amigans and atarans out there - don't know if
those of you that use the relevant ports of KA9Q use PPP, SLIP or
indeed CSLIP.


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