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We would all be on UUCP. That was doing similar things before TCP/UDP.
by jmclnx 2y ago
We would all be on UUCP. That was doing similar things before TCP/UDP.
- kjs3 2y agoUUCP was only a couple years before TCP, and isn't really an equivalent (it's fancy file transfer with a little remote command exec sprinkled on in the end) and natively its dialup oriented; it usually requires some other L3 protocol to run over networks. There was a time when IPX/SPX was a contender. Xerox pitched XNS directly at TCP. DECNet/OSI was around. There were a lot of others...lot's of experimenting going on at the time.
- immibis 2y agoUUCP's primary distinction is that it's store-and-forward.
- Karrot_Kream 2y agoIf you're interested in a more "modern" UUCP, there's NNCP [1] (HTTPS ver here [2].) It continues to mostly be a file-transfer protocol with a bit of signaling added on. [1]: http://www.nncpgo.org/ http://www.nncpgo.org/ [2]: https://nncp.mirrors.quux.org/ https://nncp.mirrors.quux.org/