[ih] RE: Dec 1969 meeting and Telnet

[Steve Crocker]

I don't recall the motivation.  Jeff Rulifson would likely know.  I
think he's still at Sun.

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Day [mailto:day at std.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 1:29 PM
> To: Steve Crocker; 'John Day'; 'Adriana C. Arrington'; 
> internet-history at postel.org
> Cc: vinton.g.cerf at wcom.com; 'Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan'
> Subject: RE: [ih] RE: Dec 1969 meeting and Telnet
> 
> 
> At 13:11 -0500 2/25/03, Steve Crocker wrote:
> >Yes, that's exactly right.  It was quite impressive.  I 
> didn't mean to 
> >slight their work by saying they passed files back and forth.
> 
> Didn't think you were.  I wasn't even sure if I remembered 
> that right!  ;-)
> 
> >
> >Now that I think about it, I recall Jeff Rulifson saying the process 
> >was
> >*faster* than doing it entirely locally on the SDS 940 
> machine because
> >it didn't burden their poor disk as much.  That is, it was faster to
> >send the file to Utah and get back the result than it was to read and
> >write on the local disk.  I forget the rest of the details, but it's
> >probably worth dredging up.
> 
> ;-) that is great!  Do remember why they were doing it?  Was it that 
> Utah had a Tenex and SRI was getting theirs and in the meantime were 
> compiling stuff in Utah?  Can't dredge that up.
> 
> A year or so later, we were developing an OS for a PDP-11 and were 
> compiling in San Diego and downloading to the 11 in Illinois.  Then 
> all we could do was flip switches at the console or force a dump to 
> the printer!
>