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Re: lamers on IRC
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Thomas Lord |
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Re: lamers on IRC |
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Sun, 29 May 2022 17:57:33 -0700 |
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Kinda. RS232 was used in both the nearby and long
distance cases. In the long distance cases it is
used to make a physically short connection to the local
modem.
If you are connecting two computers directly this way,
one of them is assuming a terminal is connected, the
other is pretending to be a terminal.
Computer A (acting as if it is a terminal) logs in to computer B
and runs a program that speaks uucp. They move files
using that protocol over a terminal connection.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_modem
But with the Fediverse you have it,
Not at all - that's a very different system for a
fairly narrow set of purposes, but I'll drop it.
-t
On 2022-05-29 17:07, Emanuel Berg wrote:
In telecommunications, RS-232 or Recommended Standard 232
is a standard originally introduced in 1960 for serial
communication transmission of data. It formally defines
signals connecting between a DTE (data terminal equipment)
such as a computer terminal, and a DCE (data
circuit-terminating equipment or data communication
equipment), such as a modem.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-232>
Hm ... :)
No, I get it, rs232 was used for very short distances (e.g.,
same room), UUCP was used for long distances on landlines.
I added rs232 to my computer history file, the one other entry
from the year 1960 is fittingly ALGOL 60, the
machine-independent algorithmic language ...
https://dataswamp.org/~incal/COMP-HIST
https://dataswamp.org/~incal/sth/scripts/hist
https://dataswamp.org/~incal/#sth
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