[ih] Early Internet history
Lyndon Nerenberg
lyndon at orthanc.ca
Sat Jul 7 11:15:47 PDT 2018
> UNDO and MCVAX were both on EARN/BITNET, though I don’t remember if they routed any UUCP traffic over
> BITNET.
I can't speak to that specific case, but I would guess this would be a
decision of last resort. BITNET spoke EBCDIC, and UNIX email often didn't
survive the ASCII->EBCDIC->ASCII translations unscathed.
I ran a BITNET node (AUCS) using UREP running on a Sun 3/160. Dealing
with character set translation was always a pain in the butt.
--lyndon
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