Classic Comp UUCP network.

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Sun Feb 10 01:40:34 2002

At 07:11 PM 9/02/2002 -0600, Owen Robertson wrote:

>But in reality, many hobbyists have designed their own
>network protocols out of necessity. They wanted to network certain
>computers, but no network protocols had been implemented for them, so they
>wrote their own protocol, or ported someone else's.

I know many years ago La Trobe University implemented networking between
the DECsystem-10 and one of the VAXes via a home written suite of programs
that used Kermit as the transport. I think this developed into the Kermit
channel that's available in PMDF.

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