7 Mar
2017
7 Mar
'17
11:45 p.m.
I ran Taylor UUCP on a small BBS system (3 lines!) I ran from my
apartment in Deer Park, NY, circa 1991-1994 - USENET node kilowatt
It was on System V R4 by Consensys on a 486-33 and later a 486DX2-66 -
but some things were badly broken, so much so that things like UUCP
weren't even usable. I don't remember why. Might have had something to
do with the devices.
So Taylor it was. I have version 1.04 source code.
Hooked up to Motorola (mcdhup) in Hauppauge for USENET news and email,
using a Telebit Worldblazer, and then disseminated it to various other
small USENET nodes.
I had quite an interesting routing setup for the mail system included
with SVR4 (mailsurr?) that would take the UUCP maps posted in
comp.mail.maps, run them through pathalias and construct a complete path
to every node in the map. It was the only way I knew of to deal with
multiple systems I could connect to that would in turn also connect to
multiple other USENET nodes. I had no definitive "smart host".
On 3/7/2017 12:17 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org
<mailto:dave@horsfall.org>> wrote:
It's been ages since I delved into UUCP; first was the
"original", then HoneyDanBer.
Actually this is a great question for this list .. how many
implementations were created?
1.) The original 1978 version that shipped with V7 and 32/V (BSD 4.1
and 4.2)
2,) PC-UUCP for DOS came next -- I never knew how much was ripped off
from the original, because at the time, the Chesson's G protocol was
not well specified. The authors claimed to have reverse engineered
it - I will say it worked.
3.) Honey-Dan-Ber rewrite - most popular for a long time
4.) Taylor UUCP first real clone that I know of that I do think was
done with out looking at other's source. G protocol had been publicly
documented by then and the Trailblazer in fact was shipping with the
protocol imbedded in it.
Any others that folks know about and how well were they used? Did
things like Coherent have a UUCP? Linux and FreeBSD were able to use
to Taylor UUCP because it became available by then. Whitesmith's
Idris lacked anything like UUCP IIRC (but was based on V6). Same
with Thoth originally at Waterloo, but by the time they shipped it as
the QNX product it was V7 compliant but I do not remember a UUCP being
included in it. Minux lacked a UUCP as I recall, but I'm hazy on
that has Andy's crew wrote a lot of the user space. Coherent was a
"full" V7 clone and include things like the dev tools including
yacc/lex and was released much, much before the Taylor version came
out -- so what do they use for uucp if at all?
Does anyone remember any other implementations?
Clem