[GTALUG] I’m obviously way behind in my reading: IBM owns Redhat

[James Knott]

On 2020-05-27 09:20 PM, Russell Reiter wrote:
>
>     Funny thing, I have been working with telecom, computers and networks
>     for decades, but have never, not once, seen FDDI implemented anywhere.
>
>
> I don't necessarily think that's a funny thing, you don't typically 
> get the pedigree of every network your data traverses, unless you 
> actually search for it.

I have worked hands on with a variety of systems and networks.  I have 
worked on telcom, cell networks, office LANs, cell networks, Rogers 
networks, in central offices, factories warehouses and more. I have seen 
a lot.

> Toronto is a pretty late adopter of LRT tech, so in that sense, others 
> have done our structural groundwork for us. I rode my first 
> articulated urban LRT vehicle in Europe in 1967. The pilot LRT project 
> for Toronto didn't materialize til 2001. Sure we had a couple of bendy 
> buses but surface LRT was not on the Toronto transit radar at all; not 
> for all those decades.
>

LRT used to be called "streetcars".  Toronto has had them for well over 
a century.

> Wasn't that Air Canada system linked to the US carriers through SABRE 
> Inc's frame relay system which allowed consumers to be able to access 
> a computerized booking system using DTMF tones.
>

They connected to Sabre and eventually moved to it.  However, I had no 
experience with it.  The system at Front St. was based on a UNIVAC 
system and I worked on the communications front end, which ran on 
Collins computers.