Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: talk problems between SUN and uVAX - (nf) Message-ID: <2555@phri.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 13:00:47 EST Article-I.D.: phri.2555 Posted: Mon Jan 12 13:00:47 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Jan-87 04:37:01 EST References: <16784@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <300@boulder.UUCP> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 17 Summary: Talk goes as far back as TOPS-10? In article <300@boulder.UUCP> forys@boulder.UUCP (Jeff Forys) writes: > I dont know, certainly by todays standards [4.2 talk is] poorly written, > but it was probably the first of its kind [...] I vaugely remember there being a talk-like facility on a TOPS-10 system I used back around 1976. It wasn't screen oriented, but it had the ability to have multi-way conversations with each person's contributions being copied to all the other terminals involved (there could be more than just 2), preceeded by the name of the person "talking". I don't remember for sure, but I think it was line-by-line buffered. Does anybody remember more about this? -- Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 "you can't spell deoxyribonucleic without unix!"