Retro networking / WAN communities

Grant Taylor cctalk at gtaylor.tnetconsulting.net
Mon Apr 11 17:39:53 CDT 2022


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?

> - 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


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