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Fidonet??!!! You have put tears in my eyes... I was 20 years old, It
was 20 years ago... there was no internet (or UUCP<br>
nodes) in Peru... we were a bunch (only 20 people, at most) that were
interested to connect to something that was<br>
outside the country... so we call (dial up)... international call to
some phones located in the U.S. to send our request...<br>
ah! those times... great times! (first time we connect we hire a big
screen and project the connection so all can<br>
see the connection... crazies, we were crazy kids! ... well, its gone!)<br>
<br>
Since I am mounting this small lab to replicate a "XO network" with
access to "School Server" then<br>
I will have to add one more computer (a windows ones) to test the
"sneaker-networking" (well... we will<br>
walk 3 meters only! but it is the same!)...<br>
<br>
If my memory is not wrong (we are old guys, very old!!!) I learn about
Fidonet and Compuserve and<br>
BBS and similar things reading a "gone" magazine named "Creative
Computing"... I wonder if the<br>
same "innovative" spirit of that magazine can be translated to the
children of this generation with<br>
the help of the XOs & OLPC... <br>
<br>
I will check and find for all the UUCP versions (software) in the next
days... and I will put them<br>
in our website for anyone that want to get back some memories... (or
help with the tests!)<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Javier Rodriguez<br>
Lima, Peru<br>
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John Gilmore wrote:
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<pre wrap="">uucp ... the first place I'd turn for
sneaker-netting posix-ish systems together.
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP</a>
Yep. UUCP is great if there's a phone line that can dial overnight
cheaply, but no Internet. I released the first free implementation of
uucp (gnuucp), which was later succeeded by my friend Ian Taylor's
"Taylor uucp", which I believe is still the best free version. Ian
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ian@airs.com"><ian@airs.com></a> may still even maintain it (last release: 1.07 in
2003). See:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.airs.com/ian/software.html">http://www.airs.com/ian/software.html</a>
There was also an MSDOS implementation of uuslave (the predecessor of
gnuucp), maintained by Tim Pozar <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:pozar@lns.com"><pozar@lns.com></a>, which was widely
used to gateway Fidonet nodes to Usenet/UUCP nodes. That was the
first project I worked on to bring thousands of 14-year-olds into the
global network. See:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lns.com/papers/ufgate/">http://www.lns.com/papers/ufgate/</a>
If a remote school has a dialup phone connection that can run TCP/IP
over a modem, that's probably better than running uucp over it, even
if you can only run it at night due to telco charges. But uucp has a
lot of scheduling and queueing support that more modern TCP/IP systems
have forgotten about.
John
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