Subj : Re: fsxNet feedback
To   : N1uro
From : Vk3jed
Date : Mon May 17 2021 05:01 pm

-=> On 05-16-21 20:51, N1uro wrote to Blue White <=-

 N1> We all know Phil Karn came up with the original NOS. He and Brian
 N1> Kantor were very close friends (as I was with BK). When Phil wrote the
 N1> original TCP/IP stack for the PC (aka: NOS) and put ax.25 in it, BK
 N1> came up with the idea of sharing mail messages between sites and that's
 N1> how NNTP came to be. BK was also the lead in the original SMTP RFC and
 N1> invented ipencapsulation which is half of what we use today as VPNs.

I have fond memories of NOS from my early packet days.  Used to run it on a
home built twin floppy XT clone back then.  I had a dual port system with one
port on 2m and one on 70cm (both 1200 bps), running NOS on top of BPQ. 

 N1> Glad you liked the post. Knowledge only has value when it's shared.

Yep. :)


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