From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Of login (and host) names
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 11:15:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160718151516.GL27255@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1468852517.22016.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>
Norman Wilson scripsit:
> So far as I recall, nothing broke. Some people who were
> involved with TCP/IP networking at the labs were frightened
> about it; I don't remember whether that Cray was ever connected
> to an IP network so I don't know whether anything went wrong
> there. Of course such names are not a problem today,
ISTR that {net,comp}.bugs.4bsd gave some news software a headache.
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-18 14:35 Norman Wilson
2016-07-18 14:46 ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-07-18 15:15 ` John Cowan [this message]
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