[HECnet] Area 48.....

[Brian Hechinger]

On 1/7/2013 2:41 PM, Steve Davidson wrote:
This was referred to as PMR (Poor Mans Routing).   The concept was not
new because it had been used in previous versions of DECnet anyway, the
application was... Sort of...   HECnet has reserved area 63 for hidden
area nodes - to play with mostly.   I did some playing around last year.
If I can ever find my notes (from DEC days) about the whole setup I will
get back to playing some more with it.

This sounds like it was a bad idea back then and a bad idea now. :)

-brian