6 Jan
2015
6 Jan
'15
1:02 p.m.
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 12:55:36 +1100
From: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org>
On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 10:59:26AM +0100, Jacob Goense wrote:
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/1555580…
It's a bit of a budgie-killer, but a fine snapshot of what was at that time.
Erik <fair(a)netbsd.org>
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: