14 Aug
2024
14 Aug
'24
8:47 p.m.
I always thought the five control-A's were a failure of imagination
True. I joined BBN after the TCP/IP flag day, after 4.2BSD, and so on.
When I used MH, it kept one message/file; I only know the control-a thing
from MMDF.
(never going to send binary?).
As always, it's about history and how they got there. What was reasonable
for one group, over time was not for another.