[ih] X.25

[Jaap Akkerhuis]

 "Lyndon Nerenberg \(VE7TFX/VE6BBM\) via Internet-history" writes:

 >
 > Berkeley (I think?) added the 'f' protocol for use over X.25 via
 > PADs.

Nope. The f-protocol stems from the CWI (also known as mcvax).  Piet
Beertema developed it to talk to an X.25 PAD connected to the
in-house micom portselector.

He announced it on Usenet <https://usenet.trashworldnews.com/?thread=34657?
and people took it from there. You'll find more messages about UUCP
on that site.

It also became part of the EUUG network distribution tape which had
among other things, a version of uucp (inspired by the honeydanber
uucp). In Europe this version of uucp was used a lot. Some more
details of the spread of uucp etc. can be found, among other things,
in Piet's musings on his site <https://godfatherof.nl>.

That it seemed to come from Berkeley was likely because we were a
beta test site for BSD 4.x.

	jaap