From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 07:45:51 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] networking on unix before uucp In-Reply-To: <53FB4B6D.5070404@e-bbes.com> References: <201408230308.s7N38kId012165@cuzuco.com> <20140824045903.GL11080@mcvoy.com> <53FB4B6D.5070404@e-bbes.com> Message-ID: <20140825144550.GM31814@mcvoy.com> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 08:42:53AM -0600, emanuel stiebler wrote: > On 2014-08-23 22:59, Larry McVoy wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 03:32:45PM -0400, Clem Cole wrote: > >> BEGIN - old guy's memories .... > > > > I see your old guy memories and "raise" my sort of old guy memories. > > This is a bell labs blit story. It relies heavily on 7 bit clean stuff. > > I'm not entirely sure this ever worked reliably but here is what we did. > > > > I was a grad student at UW Madison and shared an office with > another guy. We > > had a serial line to the computing center across the street. We > had a blit, > > loved it. We wanted two. > > Any chance, you still have any software for the BLIT? Nope, all we were doing was muxing a serial line and that was 8051 assembler. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm