Classic Comp UUCP network.

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Sun Feb 10 01:29:07 2002

At 02:08 PM 9/02/2002 -0600, Jay West wrote:
>You wrote....
>
>----- Original Message -----
> > I think the pursuit of this is motivated by many of the same reasons
> > people are interested in vintage hardware.
>
>Ah - a reasoned explanation. That's what I was looking for. Thanks!
>UUCP tends to be quite maintenance intensive. And yes, for many systems it
>is fairly troublesome to set up.

I'm sure it is. I have some manuals on how to set up UUCP on A/UX and have
a nice A/UX box sitting here doing nothing, so at least I have some classic
hardware to set up a UUCP node.

>Starting a new network, separate from the Internet - is generally a much
>more daunting task than you might imagine. There is co-ordination, and be
>necessity administration,. policies, etc. If you think that wouldn't be
>needed, then try going back over the past few months of list posts and you
>might find many folks can't agree on things here (not that that's bad in my
>opinion).

Indeed, but it should help illustrate most of the issues that the Internet
went through in the early days (well before it got called The Internet),
which in itself may be educational.

Of course, this raises some other questions, like why did TCP/IP win the
Internet wars. Why were other protocols swamped. Two that "died" along the
way would be the protocols that formed JANET and those we used in Australia
developed at Sydney University.


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