Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : Arelor
From : tenser
Date : Fri Apr 15 2022 11:31:39

On 14 Apr 2022 at 03:20p, Arelor pondered and said...
 
 Ar>   By: tenser to Arelor on Thu Apr 14 2022 10:02 am
 Ar>  > In the local region, I give hams access to a number of
 Ar>  > systems via AX.25: Multics, TOPS-20, 7th Edition Unix,
 Ar>  > 4.3BSD, a modern version of DragonFly, RSTS/E, VAX/VMS,
 Ar>  > VM/CMS and CDC Cyber NOS.  Well, not so much VM/CMS as
 Ar>  > that requires 3270, which isn't that easy over AX.25,
 Ar>  > but I do give accounts on the mainframe.
 Ar>  > 
 Ar>  > It's fun, but almost no one uses it.  People used to
 Ar>  > traffic BBSes can't figure it out.  :-)
 Ar> 
 Ar> That is very cool. Are you using SHIM for the early Unices?
 Ar> 
 Ar> Offering Dragonfly is a weird choice for a retro themed offering since
 Ar> it is modern. I got a DVD with Dragonfly with the current Linux Magazine
 Ar> :-)

The DragonFly machine is the "modern" host and intended to
be the environment for Serious Work.  There are a few hams
who connect in over the Internet, but almost no one uses
AX.25.  The other stuff is just for fun, though I've found
that both Multics and TOPS-20 are remarkably usable even
over an anemic AX.25 link; I suspect that's because they
date from an era of line-oriented teletypewriters.

Unix, in many ways, is the hardest to use; VMS wasn't too
happy until I rewrote the connection program to introduce
some buffering.

Most of the packet stuff around here has shifted to NTS and
traffic handling; that's fine, but means if you aren't running
JNOS, FBB or BPQ32, people don't know what to do with you.

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