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

[Russell Reiter]

On Thu, May 28, 2020, 7:02 AM James Knott via talk, <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Streetcars in Toronto use narrow gauge rails and trucks on the city streets
in order to provide for and blend two lanes of vehicular traffic each way.
Speed and reliability is limited by those environmental factors.

LRT's use dedicated surface access and Toronto's first dedicated LRT was
planned and enacted a few short years ago.

The one I experienced in the sixties used bollards at to prevent motorized
vehicular access to areas where pedestrians board and dedicated right of
way in other places. Sort of like our current pilot project but with more
human safety factored in.


> > 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.
>
>
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