From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:01:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210319020129.GO24642@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFH29to7Hz3R2ioYJKpoZAtXb_EfH6pvkqh3E9-DL8A0tPUrKQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 09:45:53PM -0400, Richard Salz wrote:
> > 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
> :)
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-19 2:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-17 20:33 Josh Good
2021-03-17 20:57 ` Adam Thornton
2021-03-17 21:04 ` Al Kossow
2021-03-17 21:38 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-17 21:08 ` Jim Capp
2021-03-17 21:26 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-17 21:29 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-17 21:40 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-17 21:42 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-18 5:10 ` Wesley Parish
2021-03-18 1:15 ` [TUHS] XENIX or UNIX? (was: Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-18 1:21 ` George Michaelson
2021-03-20 0:12 ` Tony Finch
2021-03-18 23:05 ` [TUHS] Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse! Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-03-19 1:45 ` Richard Salz
2021-03-19 2:01 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2021-03-19 2:06 ` Chris Torek
2021-03-19 2:59 ` Earl Baugh
2021-03-19 17:27 ` Chris Torek
2021-03-17 23:18 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-17 23:22 ` George Michaelson
2021-03-18 1:23 ` Richard Salz
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