[TUHS] Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!

Richard Salz rich.salz at gmail.com
Fri Mar 19 11:45:53 AEST 2021


> In the mid-late-1980s, half the world's email went through 'ihnp4' (google
> it) via UUCP.  That was a cluster of machines running SVRx.
>

When you're the phone company, calls are free. :) This is the best article
I saw: www.nobell.org/~gjm/about/ihnp4.html  Let's also remember seismo and
decvax which had phone bills in the tens of thousands per month. And they
weren't free.

I was the moderator of mod.sources, everyone wanted to call me.  mirror!rs
:)
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