On 05/18/2017 10:44 AM, geneb wrote: > Because. That's why. :)
Well, okay--but then let's be period-correct. The PDP-11 dates from 1970, when, AFAIK, BBSes, if they existed, were far from what people think they were. I'm thinking of,say, Call Computer in Mountain View, frequented by the HCC people. 300 baud, usually acoustic coupler-type (in 1970, the implications of the Carterfone decision had just begun to set in.) Mostly a real bulletin board in the sense of posting group messages. That ran on what, an HP 3000? And whatever happened to Alex? --Chuck
