19 Mar
2021
19 Mar
'21
8:01 a.m.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 09:45:53PM -0400, Richard Salz wrote:
seismo had the connection to Europe. decvax was a thing. A shout out to
my Alma Mater, uwvax, it was not ihnp4 but it sent a bunch through. I was
..!uwvax!geophysics!geowhiz!lm for a long time. I used to have all those
paths memorized, I'm old.
..!lm
In the
mid-late-1980s, half the world's email went through 'ihnp4' (google
it) via UUCP. That was a cluster of machines running SVRx.
When you're the phone company, calls are free. :) This is the best article
I saw: www.nobell.org/~gjm/about/ihnp4.html Let's also remember seismo and
decvax which had phone bills in the tens of thousands per month. And they
weren't free.
I was the moderator of mod.sources, everyone wanted to call me. mirror!rs
:)