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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>
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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.
	...