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Aucbvax.1908 fa.works utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!dcrocker@udel Wed Jun 24 06:17:09 1981 Apollo gatewaying We had an Apollo presentation, given by Dave Nelson, one of their Development VPs. He said that a gateway (to unspecified other networks) was planned. Guess I would expect the initial one to be to others of their (Domain) rings.

It was my impression that the basic network environment is strictly message/packet oriented, without connections or other efficiency mechanisms. Nelson pointedly stated (it was too affirmative to class as an "admission") that they were not oriented toward file transfers . Such things can and are done, but the environment is not tuned to them.

Dave

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