[ih] CSNET

[John Curran]

Dave - 

  I'll review it when I get a chance; I can't help with the 
  early period but was keeping CSNET pieces running as part 
  of the BBN team for 1990 through shutdown in October 1991.

/John
  
FYI - I had the honor of doing final power down of sh, relay1, 
  and relay2 (once Karen Roubicek gave the "do it" command); 
  I might have even remembered to clear all the mmdf channels 
  first... ;-)

On Sep 30, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote:

> Well, I've just finished extensive changes to Wikipedia's entry for CSNet:
> 
>   <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSNET>
> 
> It would be great for folks to review it and fix any errors you see.
> 
> d/
> 
> ps.  I am quite sure that the entry's paragraph beginning "By 1981" has incorrect details about who was connected and the number during the first year but I don't remember enough to fix it.
> 
> For example, the first Phonenet site I brought up was University of Pennsylvania.  Ira Winston got MMDF running on a DEC VMS system, which was quite an impressive and ugly feat.  It motivated him to recast MMDF into a form that was friendly to operating systems that had expensive process invocation.  It was called PMDF and played an important role.  (See the genealogy chart).
> 
> d/
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> 
>  Dave Crocker
>  Brandenburg InternetWorking
>  bbiw.net