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I love that the primary interface to Horizons is still via Telnet ^_^ I hope they keep that interface forever.
by Twisol 2y ago
I love that the primary interface to Horizons is still via Telnet ^_^ I hope they keep that interface forever.
- nxobject 2y agoIt made me wonder how old the Horizons system is... I couldn't find any information. I would've guessed it dates back to the age of UNIX workstations and NSFNET, given the "e-mail" [sic] interface that produces either pure ASCII or PostScript.
- zokier 2y agoThe public internet service is from 1996 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20060036597 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20060036597