[ih] Question re rate of growth of the Arpanet

[Dave Crocker]

On 4/22/2025 7:35 PM, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond wrote:
>> The dial-up link simply could not sustain a data call long enough. 
>
> Not when you used UUCP!!! UUCP worked really well because when the 
> line got dropped, it would restart the file transfer reasonably close 
> to where it had been dropped

yeah.  this certainly prompted my considering that but I didn't get 
around to it.

d/

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