Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!brl-sem!ron From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: talk problems between SUN and uVAX - (nf) Message-ID: <576@brl-sem.ARPA> Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 00:03:35 EST Article-I.D.: brl-sem.576 Posted: Wed Jan 14 00:03:35 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Jan-87 06:09:55 EST References: <6300001@iaoobelix.UUCP> <16784@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <300@boulder.UUCP> Organization: Electronic Brain Research Lab Lines: 19 In article <300@boulder.UUCP>, forys@boulder.UUCP (Jeff Forys) writes: > I dont know, certainly by todays standards it's poorly written, but > it was probably the first of its kind and it did work pretty well in > an all-vax environment... I'm going to forstall a bunch of discussion on this as the statement about TALK being the first of it's kind as being outright wrong. Many systems had slick screen oriented and non-screen oriented talk to other users programs. ITS has at least three nice ways of doing it and of course you can always get nasty. TOPS-20 has at least two. UNIVAC's, DEC-10's, and IBM's all have at least a minimal procedure for this. UNIX had "write" before "talk" VMS phone is probably what the author of talk was thinking about when he wrote it. ...