From: Thomas Aaron Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu)
Date: 08/01/93 

From: tinsel@uiuc.edu (Thomas Aaron Insel)
Subject: Re: Simple Q's on SLIP, DIP and a bad trip.
Date: 1 Aug 1993 18:28:59 GMT

hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:

> The primary advantages over kermit are (1) the ability to do a wider
> variety of things -- not just logging in and doing file transfer, but
> things like X. (2) the ability to have more than one session open at a
> time.

And the ability to let a houseful of computer geeks read news at the
same time without fighting over the telephone lines. 

-- 
Thomas Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu)
  "I have no special gift.  I am only passionately curious."  
                                 -- Albert Einstein