I know this is somewhat off-topic - but hopefully it is something in line with most list
members interests, if not I apologize.
It seems a Mr. Nathan Gregory has written a book on the history of Tymshare's Tymnet,
called "A Tym Before". He has a website at
https://www.chromosomequest.com/tym-before and a video presentation at
https://youtu.be/1rrYQOpZ3Q0.
I've read the book myself yet so I can't put forth an opinion or a review, but it
seems like it could be quite interesting. I hope it has some technical details and
isn't all just corporate history. The presentation was a bit underwhelming for me,
having extensively "researched" this network in the past, but still quite
informative.
On a tangent - Since MAME has SPARCstation support working now
(
https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=44666&a…)age=516),
I wonder how difficult it would be to bring up Sunlink X.25 / Solstice X.25)?
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Jeffrey H. Johnson
jhj at
trnsz.com
https://ban.ai/multics