26 Aug
2018
26 Aug
'18
6:28 a.m.
On 08/25/2018 02:59 PM, Steve Mynott wrote:
On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 at 19:45, Steve Mynott <steve.mynott(a)gmail.com
<mailto:steve.mynott@gmail.com>> wrote:
Back in the early 90s before the FSF withdrew the service due to
misuse it was possible to write off to them to get a free shell
account on "hal" as I did. I recall having to telnet through one
of three gateway systems so assume it was on its own little subnet.
But I can't remember what sort of system (hardware or OS) it was
now however and wondered if anyone else did?
https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/finger-1.37/html_node/finger_17.html
mentions "spiff" (which rings a bell as one of the systems) as a
"Sony" which must have been a NEWS-OS (BSD) system.
--
Steve Mynott <steve.mynott(a)gmail.com <mailto:steve.mynott@gmail.com>>
cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5
'hal' was running AIX on a RS/6000. At least it was when I last used it
sometime in 1992 or so. It was one of the gateways.
'spike', I'm pretty sure, was a Sony NEWS. It was also one of the
gateways IIRC.
Those are the only two I can (kinda) remember.
Jim