Re: nsw carriage codes

[pcc@ocean.com.au (Brown Family)]

On Fri, 24 Dec 1999 08:02:12 GMT, keithm@commslab.gov.au (Dave
Malcolm) wrote:

>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.
>
Only if they were acoustically coupled, but not directly. 

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