From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Steve Mynott <steve.mynott@gmail.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:30:46 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180831033046.GF5698@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANuZA8STu8kX1=-WeJatqN2UhZ7n-49Sn=2sXZq9Fei1SH5hBQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 19:45:51 +0100, Steve Mynott 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?
I had a login on the GNU systems (there were several of them). I
can't recall most of them, so they can't have been that interesting,
but there were one or two IBM machines. I forget the OS, but I recall
using gdb to look at the assembler code of some program or another.
It was clearly related to the System/370.
Greg
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-31 3:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-25 18:45 Steve Mynott
2018-08-25 18:59 ` Steve Mynott
2018-08-26 0:28 ` Jim Carpenter
2018-08-31 3:30 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
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