From: Thomas Lord <lord@basiscraft.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: lamers on IRC
Date: Sun, 29 May 2022 17:57:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2694bc1ac331f022e1d8af50d43457b@basiscraft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czfvq3wi.fsf@dataswamp.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-30 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-22 21:20 lamers on IRC Emanuel Berg
2022-05-23 6:50 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-23 10:51 ` Colin Baxter
2022-05-23 21:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-23 15:30 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-05-23 15:41 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-05-23 16:12 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-05-24 22:14 ` Jon Fineman
2022-05-24 22:49 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-05-25 16:55 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-05-25 5:07 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-23 16:47 ` Thomas Lord
2022-05-23 21:46 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-23 21:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-25 5:26 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-25 22:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-25 23:55 ` Samuel Wales
2022-05-25 23:58 ` Samuel Wales
2022-05-26 1:48 ` Samuel Banya
2022-05-27 2:25 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-27 10:13 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-27 14:16 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-05-27 15:12 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-27 16:13 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-28 0:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-27 15:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-27 15:51 ` Samuel Banya
2022-05-28 0:08 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-28 4:11 ` Thomas Lord
2022-05-28 4:21 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-28 4:39 ` Thomas Lord
2022-05-28 4:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-28 5:04 ` Thomas Lord
2022-05-28 5:12 ` Thomas Lord
2022-05-28 15:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-28 15:08 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-28 16:12 ` Thomas Lord
2022-05-28 16:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-29 3:50 ` Thomas Lord
2022-05-29 23:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-30 0:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-30 0:57 ` Thomas Lord [this message]
2022-05-30 2:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-30 2:33 ` Thomas Lord
2022-06-01 0:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-09 9:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-28 6:49 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-28 15:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-27 16:19 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-28 0:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-28 4:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-28 4:30 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2022-05-28 4:32 ` Emanuel Berg
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