From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: fair-tuhs@netbsd.org (Erik E. Fair) Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 23:02:27 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] State of networking in the early '90s In-Reply-To: <20150106015536.GA27434@www.oztivo.net> References: <534d2eef8d0fb84d3880c067d9e1517d@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <22750.1420527747@cesium.clock.org> > Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 12:55:36 +1100 > From: Warren Toomey > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 10:59:26AM +0100, Jacob Goense wrote: > > Early 80s INTELPOST ran on small 11s running RT-11/RSX-11 with Mills' > > fuzzball bolted on top. These were hooked up to DACOM or Rapicom fax > > machines. > > Reading this e-mail caused me to read up on the fuzzball, which then lead me > to this overview of the state of networking in the early '90s: 31 years ago almost to the day, I stayed up until 01:30 PST to write a description of all of the networks I knew of in response to a query on the HUMAN-NETS mailing list; it appears under the subject "The Plethora of Networks" in HUMAN-NETS digest V7 #1 which can be found: http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~cwm/NetStuff/Human-Nets/Volume7.html A number of others also chimed in, and the resulting discussion inspired (and was source material for) John S. Quarterman's book "The Matrix" (1989): http://www.amazon.com/The-Matrix-Computer-Conferencing-Worldwide/dp/1555580335 It's a bit of a budgie-killer, but a fine snapshot of what was at that time. Erik