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John Demco john at demco.ca
Wed Oct 1 18:15:04 PDT 2025


Possibly, although my recollection is that CMC's services were oriented 
toward Canadian researchers. It wouldn't be surprising though that there 
may have been international interest, or alternatively that similar 
services were springing up elsewhere.

John

On 2025-10-01 18:03, Dave Crocker wrote:
> On 10/1/2025 6:00 PM, John Demco via Internet-history wrote:
>> I was at UBC back then, and among other things I managed CDNnet. Its 
>> email service was used for a number of purposes we didn’t initially 
>> foresee. For example, in addition to the UUCP-related traffic Lyndon 
>> mentions, it was used by clients of the Canadian Microelectronics 
>> Corporation to assist in chip design, checking, and fabrication.
>
>
> cool.  I seem to recall that ISI similarly was shipping chip design 
> via email.  Maybe with you guys?
>
> d/
>



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