Re: lamers on IRC

[Thomas Lord]

Kinda.  RS232 was used in both the nearby and long
distance cases.  In the long distance cases it is
used to make a physically short connection to the local
modem.

If you are connecting two computers directly this way,
one of them is assuming a terminal is connected, the
other is pretending to be a terminal.

Computer A (acting as if it is a terminal) logs in to computer B
and runs a program that speaks uucp.  They move files
using that protocol over a terminal connection.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_modem

>  But with the Fediverse you have it,

Not at all - that's a very different system for a
fairly narrow set of purposes, but I'll drop it.

-t



On 2022-05-29 17:07, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> >   In telecommunications, RS-232 or Recommended Standard 232
> >   is a standard originally introduced in 1960 for serial
> >   communication transmission of data. It formally defines
> >   signals connecting between a DTE (data terminal equipment)
> >   such as a computer terminal, and a DCE (data
> >   circuit-terminating equipment or data communication
> >   equipment), such as a modem.
> >   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-232>
> >
> > Hm ... :)
>
> No, I get it, rs232 was used for very short distances (e.g.,
> same room), UUCP was used for long distances on landlines.
>
> I added rs232 to my computer history file, the one other entry
> from the year 1960 is fittingly ALGOL 60, the
> machine-independent algorithmic language ...
>
> https://dataswamp.org/~incal/COMP-HIST
> https://dataswamp.org/~incal/sth/scripts/hist
> https://dataswamp.org/~incal/#sth