--- Bill Pechter <pechter(a)bg-tc-ppp480.monmouth.com> wrote:
I wrote:
When I was a system admin for Lucent (1997-1999),
I was amazed at how much
they depend on UUCP for internal file transfer.
It was pretty much all TCP/IP in '97 in Holmdel.
They used a combination of UUCP over IP and UUCP over some AT&T serial
protocol over fiber. Can't remember the product name. Cost a bundle
for a compatible Sbus card and the license for the driver.
Oh... this was at the Columbus Works (thus cbosgd, cbatt, etc.), formerly a
Western Electric factory.
They've talked about removing the UUCP support
inside Lucent but too
many people have embedded it into operations...
No doubt.
You could literally install two versions on a machine
(one in the AT&T
universe and one in the BSD universe and have your machine talking to itself
with two different UUCP's over ethernet and serial port).
Never tried that but I'm sure it would work. Kinda gross, though.
-ethan
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