Re: Upcoming time boundary events

On 29/05/2025 19:23, Simon Clubley wrote:

On 2025-05-28, bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/27/2025 8:15 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:

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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, ...
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SNA is an architecture. SNA over IP is still SNA. In fact 3270 over BiSync can be part of an SNA Network. Would you include SNA over X.25?

I wonder how old you have to be to recognise any of the above these days ? :-)
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Not that old. I am 70 and so I was programming before SNA was announced, but I guess many over 40 worked with SNA over HDLC, Token Ring an Bus+Tag channels.

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There is still a UUCP network.  It runs over the internet rather than
the phone system but it runs the UUCP protocol.
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I keep meaning to look at that...

 Motivated by that comment, I just had a quick look and discovered
that, 40 years on, FidoNet is still in use...
 Simon.
 

Dave