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- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 01:13:28 -0400
- From: shri%legato@cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar{shri@ncst.in})
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- Subject: OK What Exactly Does IRC Stand For?
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- In article <telecom12.691.2@eecs.nwu.edu> is written:
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- > TRT = Tropical Radio Telegraph, one of the oldest International Record
- > Carriers (i.e. telex companies).
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- Question: Is an IRC "equivalent" to a telex company ?
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- I've come to know and understand the term "Internationaal Record
- Carrier" by rote, to be almost synonymous with "long distance" carrier
- you could make peer-peer networking arrangements with.
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- Whats the formal definition?
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- shrikumar (shri@legato.cs.umass.edu)
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