* [TUHS] hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
@ 2018-08-25 18:45 Steve Mynott
2018-08-25 18:59 ` Steve Mynott
2018-08-31 3:30 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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From: Steve Mynott @ 2018-08-25 18:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: tuhs
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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?
--
Steve Mynott <steve.mynott@gmail.com>
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* Re: [TUHS] hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
2018-08-25 18:45 [TUHS] hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu Steve Mynott
@ 2018-08-25 18:59 ` Steve Mynott
2018-08-26 0:28 ` Jim Carpenter
2018-08-31 3:30 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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From: Steve Mynott @ 2018-08-25 18:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: tuhs
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On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 at 19:45, Steve Mynott <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>
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* Re: [TUHS] hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
2018-08-25 18:59 ` Steve Mynott
@ 2018-08-26 0:28 ` Jim Carpenter
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From: Jim Carpenter @ 2018-08-26 0:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: tuhs
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On 08/25/2018 02:59 PM, Steve Mynott wrote:
>
>
> 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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* Re: [TUHS] hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
2018-08-25 18:45 [TUHS] hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu Steve Mynott
2018-08-25 18:59 ` Steve Mynott
@ 2018-08-31 3:30 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey @ 2018-08-31 3:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Steve Mynott; +Cc: tuhs
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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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