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I think it's a bang path: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Bang_path http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Bang_path
by harrigan 15y ago
I think it's a bang path: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Bang_path http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Bang_path
- InclinedPlane 15y agoYup. It's basically a route described as a list of hosts. One of the hosts is actually on the internet proper, and then the message would be transferred to each successive host along the way using whatever local links were available (including dialup modems) using a store and forward protocol. As dedicated internet access became more common UUCP became obsolete.
- mahmud 15y agoWe use it at work to collect point-of-sale data from our stores. Don't ask me how it got there, I wasn't around when that happened, but yes, UUCP.
- spitfire 15y agoI implemented a UUCP network in 2001. It was still around because of some legacy (SCO UNIX) systems which just couldn't be gotten rid of. Fortunately, these things are much less common now that software costs are essentially zero.
- mbowcock 15y agodecvax was DEC unix engineering groups vax on uucp/usenet. I believe it was the first system to move email in realtime. Microsoft must have been linked through this vax.