10 Jul
2019
10 Jul
'19
5:44 a.m.
Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon(a)orthanc.ca> wrote:
Back in the day I had the pleasure of firing up what
was possibly
the last North American BITNET node (certainly the last one on
NetNorth), on a Sun 3/xxx deskside server running SunOS 3.5(+).
(AUCS, at Athabasca U.)
I'm curious to know if the UREP source code that drove that link
ever escaped. I recall it being licensed code at the time, but
from academia vs. a commercial product. I don't know if that also
applied to the bisync serial driver.
--lyndon
You don't want to see the source code. We ran it at Emory, and I
remember that I had to work with it, and after every dive into the
code, I felt like I needed a shower afterwards.
I don't remember the details, only the strong associated emotions. :-(
Arnold