From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 18:39:53 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Help request: uucp, mail on 4.2BSD In-Reply-To: <1489015105.2992185.905166496.635E712B@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <20170307070941.GA2012@minnie.tuhs.org> <58c07fb8.F7Cd/seulkX9W1t/%schily@schily.net> <1489015105.2992185.905166496.635E712B@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: I've still got my Worldblazer, and a Trailblazer that I found in a storage closet at a defense contractor I was consulting for back in the mid 90's. I'm seriously thinking of getting my SVR4.2 system back up and running and seeing if I can get Taylor UUCP to function again. Of course, I didn't make the UUCP maps until the early 90's... but still :) On 3/8/2017 6:18 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 8, 2017, at 15:07, Arthur Krewat wrote: >> This is one of the reasons Telebit did the whole UUCP "g" acceleration >> in the Trailblazer/Worldblazer modems. >> >> The turn-around time for the small packets being acknowledged was so bad >> over normal modems that it was painful. >> >> So Telebit made the modem do the acknowledgements (IIRC), stream the >> data over the phone line, and the receiving end would "play along" on >> the acknowledgements. >> >> It was very effective for news especially. >> >> On 3/8/2017 5:03 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> During that "modem" time, I started with a 2400 baud modem and soon >>> upgraded >>> to a US-Robotics modem. It turned out that UUCP had several issues and was not >>> very effective with high speed modems. >>> >>> ...SNIP... >>> Jörg >>> > I need to pull my Telebits out now, don't I? ;) >