Sujet : Re: Upcoming time boundary events
De : clubley (at) *nospam* remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley)
Groupes : comp.os.vmsDate : 29. May 2025, 19:23:01
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On 2025-05-28, bill <
bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/27/2025 8:15 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
These old protocols have a habit of staying around a lot longer than
expected. For example, I suspect somewhere people are still using UUCP,
2780/3780, xmodem, DDCMP, original SNA (not SNA over TCP/IP), etc, ...
I wonder how old you have to be to recognise any of the above these days ? :-)
>
There is still a UUCP network. It runs over the internet rather than
the phone system but it runs the UUCP protocol.
>
Motivated by that comment, I just had a quick look and discovered
that, 40 years on, FidoNet is still in use...
Simon.
-- Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFPWalking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.