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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)
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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!"