Folks,

I stopped by the home of Rhodes University - a quaint, very British town in the Eastern cape, originally founded by settlers who were bought in as a ‘buffer’ between warring factions at that time.

The University is in the town, and has a beautiful campus. I had been corresponding with a couple of people who were the original founders of Internet in South Africa. I saw the lab, and the FreeBSD machine that originally had a Fidonet connection, and then a 9600 Baud dialup connection to the States. They now have their connection through a commercial provider in Johannesburg, and it is a 128K connection for all South Africas Universities. That translates to a connection about two orders of magnitude slower than a comparable US university.