Subj : Re: computers
To   : tenser
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Jul 19 2024 07:23:00

-=> tenser wrote to Spectre <=-

 te> SLIP was the 1980s; Rick Adams added it to 4.2BSD.  It was fun,
 te> dialing into a Telebit Trailblazer and running `slattach` and
 te> `ifconfig` to have dial-up Internet access from home.  By the
 te> 1990s, people wanted PPP and dynamic IP assignment (SLIP was
 te> comparatively static, which was wasteful most of the time).

Or, they were cheapskates in the 90s, ran a shell account, then used
SLiRP to create a SLIP connection over a dial-up shell. Man, that was a
pain!

 te> Also, people started getting into PNAT around this time, so that
 te> they could have small ethernets at home that were connected to
 te> the net.  I had a 486 running FreeBSD, a VAX running VMS, and
 te> a MIPS R2000-based DECstation 5000 running Ultrix at home.  I
 te> ran DECnet and TCP/IP, and the 486 did PPP and NAT to the local
 te> university; my console for the VAX was a VT320, and I could
 te> login to that, telnet to the FreeBSD machine, and SSH into the
 te> SPARCstation on my desk at work.  I ran a full-on X desktop on
 te> the Ultrix machine.  Good times.

That was about the time I had my first DSL line and used a Linux box as
a firewall, mail host, web server and samba host. NATed the LAN, ran a
BBS and a couple of servers behind it. It all felt very cutting edge to
me, but it was pretty tame by comparison.




 
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