19 Jul
2016
19 Jul
'16
12:07 a.m.
what fun we had in the early 1980s when the uk universities ran coloured book networking,
that used arpanet style names but in the reverse order. I was
ssimon(a)uk.ac.leeds-poly.ee.pe.
formulating valid routed paths with % could be taxing...
-Steve
On 18 Jul 2016, at 15:35, Norman Wilson
<norman(a)oclsc.org> wrote:
Just to be clear: I don't pine at all for UUCP.
I do still think it's a mistake that e-mail addresses and
domain names run backwards from the way directories and
filenames run. That's what I miss about !norman vs
norman@.
But it's all a Beta-vs-VHS matter these days, like a lot
of unfortunate design decisions that have become standard
over the years. Like git winning out over hg, which is
sort of like the VAX/VMS command language winning out over
the Bourne shell. (To toss another pebble into the pond
to see what the ripples look like, rather in the manner
of Rob and Dave.)
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON