Subj : Re: fsxNet feedback
To   : Blue White
From : N1uro
Date : Sun May 16 2021 08:51 pm

Hello BW;

-=> Blue White wrote to N1uro <=-

 BW> I did not know that!  I figured some academics came up with it.

We all know Phil Karn came up with the original NOS. He and Brian Kantor
were very close friends (as I was with BK). When Phil wrote the original
TCP/IP stack for the PC (aka: NOS) and put ax.25 in it, BK came up with the
idea of sharing mail messages between sites and that's how NNTP came to be. 
BK was also the lead in the original SMTP RFC and invented ipencapsulation
which is half of what we use today as VPNs. 

Hams are all over pieces of the internet puzzle as far as it's creations
and designs are concerned. I've been fortunate to work on some of the KA9Q
code as a few others picked up on it when Phil Karn released it into the 
general public. K2MF's MFNOS was one I put a lot of time into with K2MF
moreso in the latter versions. K2MF was an engineer for CBS/Sony in NYC.
JNOS2 is probably the only active NOS being maintained and I supply code
for that once in a while. You'll see KA9Q all over the tcp/ip stack code
in linux/bsd/windows/mac/etc.

K2MF wished me to fully take over  his DOS based MFNOS (I still distribute
it) but I moved onto using linux and the native linux stack with my own
creations. 

Glad you liked the post. Knowledge only has value when it's shared.

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