[18334] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Process management
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Fri Jul 10 15:33:25 1998
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 15:11:59 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.980710113109.509L-100000@sidhe.memra.com> from "Michael Dillon" at Jul 10, 98 11:32:31 am
Unnamed Administration sources reported that Michael Dillon said:
> > Let's see, we can put in 3 big stations: one in an old mill in
> > the Boston area, another in Arlington VA, and a third at ihnp4..
>
> Explain, please. The first sounds like where DEC started out. Is the
> second MAE-East? And while I recognize ihnp4 as one of the central UUCP
> nodes I never knew what or where it was.
Sigh....
{To stop the flood of "huh?" email}
Several googlebytes ago, there was no "Net" but rather a loose
confederation of UUCP-linked sites. They called each other up
with dial-up phone lines and {gasp} modems every night and swapped
mail and netnews.
But to reach someone, you had to go though someone else. The big
three Someone's were:
decvax, at the Old Mill [DEC Hq] in Medford
seismo; the Center for Seismic Studies [whose interest
was not earthquakes, but nuclear explosions..] run by a
guy named Rick Adams.
ihnp4; Indian Point, a Bell System [remember THAT?] plant
in Illinois, or was it Indiana...
Thus my comment was a backhand way of saying "The more things
change..."
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