14 Dec
2024
14 Dec
'24
1:20 p.m.
Dan Cross wrote:
I'm curious if anyone has any history they can
share about the BSD
"talk" program.
Allow me to interject for a moment. Apparently there's a ttylinkd
program that "is a simple daemon that allows incoming ttylink calls to
be routed through to Linux's normal talkd(8) system". It's TCP port 87
in RFC 1060 "Assigned Numbers", but seems to have been dropped since.
Maybe someone can expand on this.
Apparently this protocol was known at MIT, because there's a Chaosnet
servic called TTYLINK. The client side is implemented by the MINITS
Chaosnet router/terminal concentrator/etc.