From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: lamers on IRC Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 02:07:25 +0200 Message-ID: <87czfvq3wi.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87wnedb6xe.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87pmk1b5ot.fsf@dataswamp.org> <9109efc3-0d1d-4d21-8160-24da6f7cd256@www.fastmail.com> <87bkvj9fr7.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87ee0eselt.fsf@dataswamp.org> <5b08e28cbbd8e3c63febe68ead319316@basiscraft.com> <87k0a68eyl.fsf@dataswamp.org> <875ylq8dev.fsf@dataswamp.org> <2a7698a89c8e34126dbc7e357feea8e0@basiscraft.com> <874k19pue3.fsf@dataswamp.org> <877d65oaxj.fsf@dataswamp.org> <38b62931b8e3ef2c4ee2dd71e111d857@basiscraft.com> <87h757q4ls.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38489"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:MigVGVX6YYkXhdrUymGEJPffQpw= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 30 02:08:27 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nvSxP-0009st-91 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 May 2022 02:08:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38904 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nvSxN-0000rE-Tu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 29 May 2022 20:08:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38684) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nvSwZ-0000qp-NX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 May 2022 20:07:35 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:56982) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nvSwX-00035q-VZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 May 2022 20:07:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nvSwW-0008yq-AO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 May 2022 02:07:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137465 Archived-At: > 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. > > > 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 -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal