[ih] uucp, was Question re rate of growth of the Arpanet

Eberhard W Lisse el at lisse.NA
Tue Apr 22 12:33:57 PDT 2025


I seem to vaguely remember that we used 'i', but it was bi-directional
and could do larger packet sizes. Worked extremely well.

el

On 2025-04-22 21:19, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) via Internet-
history wrote:
[...]
> Later, Taylor UUCP introduced the 'i' protocol, a full-duplex
> version of 't'.  Full duplex in the sense that it transfered files
> on both directions concurrently -- a huge time saving for sites that
> had bi-directional Usenet feeds (pre-NNTP).
[...]


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