9 Feb
2017
9 Feb
'17
4:58 p.m.
Larry McVoy wrote:
Back in the day when
slip was just starting to get traction (and before PPP)
I was happy with a dial-up connection to read news and work remotely
and a 9600 baud telebit for UUCP file transfer to home for work that
could be sent home and done off-line.
Bill
--
Digital had it then. Don't you wish you could buy it now!
pechter-at-gmail.com http://xkcd.com/705/
The best one
seems to have been the 3Com stack, which puts IP in the
kernel and TCP in a daemon. By the way, this implementation is also
where SLIP seems to have originated.
As much as I love all the nostalgia, and as
cool as SLIP was, if I never
have to experience the pain of trying to run TCP/IP over a modem again,
I'll be happy. For me, SLIP was just not worth it. Too much overhead
when bandwidth was too precious. A dial up terminal emulator was a
better answer in my experience.
Don't get me wrong, SLIP was cool. Modems were slow.