It is funny, but truth be told we dodged a massive bullet by going with
the "Internet" and TCP/IP as opposed to the nightmare of AT&T Connect,
IPX, and the blazing speeds of TWO! ISDN B channels.
I was there. I remember X.400, and how NDS was going to be the directory
system that bound us all
On 28/04/2024 01:14, Gavin Scott via cctalk wrote:
Fortunately, in the US the net wasn't run by the Post Office
No, but fore a very long time the phone network was run by
a government-granted monopoly, Ma Bell. Hadn't the divestiture
happened, AT&T had their own dinosaur ideas and would have
do
On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 6:34 PM Chris Zach wrote:
> Seems the USPS was trial building a system where you could bring a
> letter into a Post Office, they would scan it, then send it to another
> post office in MINUTES using a big packet switched network based on
> PDP11/23's connected to RM02's (y
Fortunately, in the US the net wasn't run by the Post Office so the
mammals were out of the bag and fruitfully multiplying long before the
rest of the world caught on and started forming committees to create
camel-shaped dinosaurs to perform the same functions. As a result most
of those things wer
On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 10:57 AM Chris Zach via cctalk
wrote:
> It is funny, but truth be told we dodged a massive bullet by going with
> the "Internet" and TCP/IP as opposed to the nightmare of AT&T Connect,
> IPX, and the blazing speeds of TWO! ISDN B channels.
>
> I was there. I remember X.400
It is funny, but truth be told we dodged a massive bullet by going with
the "Internet" and TCP/IP as opposed to the nightmare of AT&T Connect,
IPX, and the blazing speeds of TWO! ISDN B channels.
I was there. I remember X.400, and how NDS was going to be the directory
system that bound us all
On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 at 21:52, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Seems like a hormonal problem.
No, there is a problem, but it's your knee-jerk reactions.
Sorry, man, but it is. Charlie's bang on. Also, he's very British and
very sarcastic, in that British way many Americans of my personal
acq
On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 at 03:25, Tomasz Rola via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Well, if you are into this kind of stuff (I am)... Stross is an s-f
> author, formerly a programmer (ages ago but I think it still shows -
> perhaps he secretly writes his own tools in Perl)
He wrote the Linux column in the UK versio
On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 01:51:48PM -0700, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 7:25 PM Tomasz Rola via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> > Well, if you are into this kind of stuff (I am)... Stross is an s-f
> > author, formerly a programmer (ages ago but I think it
On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 7:25 PM Tomasz Rola via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Well, if you are into this kind of stuff (I am)... Stross is an s-f
> author, formerly a programmer (ages ago but I think it still shows -
> perhaps he secretly writes his own tools in Perl) and he has a
> blo
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