On Dec 30, 2011, at 5:37, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
The last time I was joined to HECnet was 11 years ago!!
Long time no see. :-)
It's good to be back!
Gha! I was trying to remember who might have been around back then. So that was you... I
think that makes you the first place outside my own experimentation that was connected to
HECnet. :-)
I believe that is correct. I don't remember anyone else being connected then.
Serial ports was my first solution. It seemed like a very easy thing to do, and it worked
just fine. The only "problem" was that DECnet over asynch serial ports are slow,
since they are limited to 9600 bps.
I might have run with that for at most a year before I wrote the bridge program to replace
it.
I also needed physical serial ports all over the place. :-)
Yeah, it was a good first step though. Got the ball rolling. :)
-brian