Retro networking / WAN communities

[Warner Losh]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 4:39 PM Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> On 4/11/22 1:59 PM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk wrote:
> > For your consideration:
> >
> > - Arpanet (NCP)
>
> Is that "NCP" the same NCP that's in ancient BSDs?  Or is it a term
> collision?
>

NCP was the forerunner of TCP/IP. Net Unix had it as its supported protocol
and that was old enough that BSD had at least one implementation.

Warner

> - Tymnet
>
> I think of Tymnet as a service and not as much as a protocol.  Though
> maybe it implies a protocol and I'm unaware of it.
>
> > - Chaosnet
>
> Ya.  Isn't Chaosnet mostly used in LISP machines?  --  This seems fairly
> far afield for my interest.
>
> > - PUP
>
> Maybe.  It also seems fairly afar afield for what I can get my hands on
> and / or emulate.
>
> > - UUCP
>
> There.  Ding that.
>
> I'm even pontificating a custom UUCP configuration that is specific to
> my user.  As in /not/ a system wide version.
>
>
>
> --
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die
>