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Posted by T on June 29, 2008, 10:43 pm
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nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net says...
> nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net says...
> > for.address.look@www.ai.uga.edu.slash.mc says...
> > >
> > > > We old-timers think of Google Groupers the same way some view AOL
> > > > users. We read USENET the way the RFC's intended, through a news
> > > > client like trn or pine (note: I'm being funny, there's no RFC for
> > > > this). This newfangled web stuff? Shoot you have people who don't
> > > > know to trim their posts and they top post to boot!
> > >
> > > I'm older than you, have been on the Internet since BITNET was two
> > > nodes and I was on YALEVM, and I top post. :) There's no reason not
> > > to adapt to the way modern software has worked these past ten or
> > > fifteen years... :)
> > >
> > >
> >
> > You're not the only one who was on BITNET. I had an account on the
> > University of Rhode Island's IBM 370 back in the day.
> >
> > Then I also had a box a home running MS-DOS on a 20GB hard drive and I
> > ran Waffle and did UUCP transfers with a friend to get NNTP feeds etc.
> >
> > ***** Moderator's Note *****
> >
> > Ah, but have you run PROFS? Have you used an AJ-841 to log into
> > EasyLink through TYMNET? Can you tell me the difference between X.25
> > and AX.25? Have you ever booted JNOS? Do you know the maximum number
> > of hubs allowed in an ARCNET network?
>
> X.25 packet networks. Yep, been there and even played aith ARCNET for
> a bit. I'm a little fuzzy on JNOS, I think I did somethign with it but
> that's WAY back in the early days.
>
>
> ***** Moderator's Note *****
>
> Trick question. AX.25 is the ham radio version of X.25, and jnos is a
> variant of the mf-nos TCP/IP communication node software written for
> dos by K2MF.
>
> Bill Horne
> Temporary Moderator
>
> (Please put [Telecom] at the end of your subject line,
> or I may never see your post! Thanks!)
>
>
Thank you! I kept wracking my brains about jnos and AX.25. Yeah, been
there, done that and quickly forgot about it once interent access became
pretty universal.
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