[ih] Old version of HOSTS.TXT available?

[Mike Padlipsky]

At 03:31 AM 12/14/2007, Scott Brim wrote:

>Ole Jacobsen found
>http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/bb-ev83b-bm/01/new-system/hosts.txt
>which is from 04 Feb 1988 (part of a TOPS-20 distribution).

would it be hopelessly xx-century of me to wonder whether anybody had 
asked jake?

[for non-xx-c. types: that's elizabeth 'jake' feinler, former head of 
the original network information center, which what's left of my 
memory insists was where the hosts tables originally came from or at 
least were distributed thru, and at last report still with access to 
the relevant archives.]


cheers, map

[whose shoulder problems caused him to break down some time ago and 
create a 'signature' file to apologize for the lack of his formerly 
customary e-volubility -- and who's been employing shiftless typing 
for a long time now to spare his wristsnfingers, in case you didn't 
know ... and who's further broken down and done 
http://www.lafn.org/~ba213/mapstuff.html , rather grudgingly]