"Mr.T" <MrT@home> wrote in message
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> "Michael J" <michael@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:M_Kfi.18311$wH4.9041@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>> >> Yep, we dont have cross bar and step-by-step exchanges any more.
>> >> They are AXE
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> HaHa. AXE *IS* X-bar!

No it's not you fucking tool.
ARE and ARF were crossbar, and replaced with AXE/S12 throughout the 90's.
AXE is fully digital (with the exception of a single analogue AXE exchange
that was installed in Endeavour Hills for a short period of time)

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>> > And S12
>> Yep. Both as reliable as each other
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> So no real change in the last 30 years then?
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Only if you are stupid enough to think that AXE is crossbar. It's not.

Got any other pearls of ignorance you'd like to share with us? I could do
with a laugh.

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Kwyj.