[ih] Comments re the packet radio discussion

[Dave Crocker]

On 4/26/2026 7:13 PM, Bob Purvy via Internet-history wrote:
> Thus you*could* carry on a lengthy debate with someone that only took a few days.


Early 1970s, while I was at UCLA and my brother was at DARPA, across the 
country. Vittal's MSG and the first-ever Answer (reply) command was 
newly available, permitting easy creation of a response, without having 
to copy addresses or Subject.

Steve and I exchanged a series of messages, over course of perhaps 15 
minutes and I was struck that it felt exactly like a conversation, where 
details of the technology did not intrude on the discussion process.

d/

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