[ih] X.25

[Clem Cole]

Thanks.  I was right, it went out via a USENET posting. I have forgotten
who and which list.

Clem

On Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 5:50 AM Jaap Akkerhuis via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

>  "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
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