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[Scott Dorsey]

Rob Brown  <brown at greenslade.gmcl.internal> wrote:
>On 2016-11-08,
>Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>
>> Also, does _anyone_ ever use a DECnet Phase IV area other than
>> area 1 ? :-) (I'm assuming no one is still running multi-area DECnet
>> networks in production these days.)
>
>We always used area 2 because 1 was the default and we did not want
>a default address to collide with anything we wanted.

At one point we were on the big NREN decnet and had a particular area
assigned to us under NREN.  Even though the decnet WAN is long gone,
we still keep using that same area because, well, we always did.
--scott

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