Re: nsw carriage codes

[keithm@commslab.gov.au (Dave Malcolm)]

In article <38631b6e.34070748@news.ocean.com.au> pcc@ocean.com.au (Brown Family) writes:
>From: pcc@ocean.com.au (Brown Family)
>Subject: Re: nsw carriage codes
>Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 07:06:58 GMT

>On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:32:04 LOCAL, keithm@commslab.gov.au (Dave
>Malcolm) wrote:

>>>Some stainless steel sleepers were called "Roomettes" with the corridor
>>>winding along the car. The seat folded into a bed and there was a toilet
>>>and shower at each end. Any one know the code????
>>
>>LANs are roomettes with a curvy corridor.
>>
>LAN's are smaller WAN's (which connect by RAS to an ISP) using a NIC
>and RJ45 or BNC. I don't seem to recall them having curved corridors.
>I've never heard them called roomettes before, packets yes, but not
>roomettes. Has a LAN ever been directly coupled to a WAN?

I've never heard of a WAN before, but I suppose a LAN could have been coupled 
to a WAN some time in the past.

Dave Malcolm

>(:-))

>Les Brown (a confused mexican)
>"Some fella says that 50% of people in this world have below average
>intelligence?"
>"Nah, that's not right, most of the people I know are pretty smart" 
>"I think you just proved his point"