[TUHS] PC Unix (had been How to Kill a Technical Conference

Charles H. Sauer sauer at technologists.com
Thu Apr 8 04:04:12 AEST 2021


I think a few other people got mail through ibmchs while I ran it, but I 
don't remember if/who/how. I don't know anything about ibmchs after May 
1989.

On 4/7/2021 11:42 AM, Josh Good wrote:
> On 2021 Apr  6, 15:47, Charles H Sauer wrote:
> 
>> - it looks like someone kept it in place after I left IBM in 1989, since
>> http://web.mit.edu/kolya/sipb/afs/root.afs/athena.mit.edu/reference/net-directory/maps/uucp.bak/u.usa.tx.4
>> lists it in 1991
> 
> Very interesting. So I understand the email-through-UUCP duties of that
> Xenix machine were to handle not just your personal email, but the email of
> several people in a Department, was that so?
> 
> If that was the case, how did the other people read their email in the same
> Xenix machine, through serial consoles or taking turns at the VGA/CGA
> console?
> 

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