[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: [Discuss] UUNet
Tom Adelstein
adelste at netscape.net
Fri Jul 11 15:06:35 CDT 2003
In the meantime, does anyone know anything about dual booting Gentoo and
RedHat? I have both installed, but RH overwrote GRUB and didn't like my
configuration of the gentoo partitions. I'm about ready to change the
configuration file. Any bullet poins before I mess up the first 1024 of
my hard drive?
davidv at adoptageek.net wrote:
> MadHat wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 14:03, Tom Adelstein wrote:
>>
>>
>>> UUNET and BBNPlanet go way back. They're both part of th original
>>> darpa project. uu.net provided mail services. In fact, I used to use
>>> them as my mail provider long ago.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> UUNet is older than some members on this list. ;) They were founded
>> back in 1987, and are touted as being the first business ISP with a
>> backbone network. They were who you had to use if you wanted reliable
>> connectivity to the Internet for many years.
>>
>>
>>
> Until they were acquired by MCI, then they went downhill fast. A
> former employer used UUnet for years and we saw our service go
> downhill within months of the acquisition.
>
> Dave
>
>
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