At 7:06 PM +0000 12/9/05, a.carlini at 
ntlworld.com wrote:
 I guess these days the average mainframe just does IP!
These days even GCOS-8 has TCP/IP.
I still remember fighting the communications problems we occasionally
had between sites with going over serial connections... <shudder>
                Zane
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