26 Aug
2018
26 Aug
'18
12:59 a.m.
On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 at 19:45, Steve Mynott <steve.mynott(a)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.
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Steve Mynott <steve.mynott(a)gmail.com>
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