From: Jim Carpenter <jim@deitygraveyard.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 20:28:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <351f1534-9a08-9366-f09a-40337b28df16@deitygraveyard.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANuZA8Q-ek==C8sUzvZeb4q-D+BiE2-w4zguRq1NYG-+V-B+Yg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 08/25/2018 02:59 PM, Steve Mynott wrote:
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> On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 at 19:45, Steve Mynott <steve.mynott@gmail.com
> <mailto:steve.mynott@gmail.com>> 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?
>
>
> https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/finger-1.37/html_node/finger_17.html
> mentions "spiff" (which rings a bell as one of the systems) as a
> "Sony" which must have been a NEWS-OS (BSD) system.
> --
> Steve Mynott <steve.mynott@gmail.com <mailto:steve.mynott@gmail.com>>
> cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5
'hal' was running AIX on a RS/6000. At least it was when I last used it
sometime in 1992 or so. It was one of the gateways.
'spike', I'm pretty sure, was a Sony NEWS. It was also one of the
gateways IIRC.
Those are the only two I can (kinda) remember.
Jim
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2018-08-25 18:45 Steve Mynott
2018-08-25 18:59 ` Steve Mynott
2018-08-26 0:28 ` Jim Carpenter [this message]
2018-08-31 3:30 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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