On 09/21/2018 08:53 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
If it ran Unix, and it did Internet email, it probably did, I think.
My emails were only with co-workers and never left the VAX. Ah, if it was via a VMS box and internal-only, then it would probably have been some form of DEC All-In-1 or something like that, probably not talking any standard protocols.
Yep, it was VAX/VMS and though we had several systems, they weren't initially networked.
I don't know "Telenet" at all.
It was a commercial service based on the X.25 protocol. Users would connect with a terminal and modem to Pr1me computers. Similar services were CompuServe, Source and others. They were all stand alone and couldn't communicate with each other, until they connected to the Internet
At the magazine I worked on, we upgraded to the full server version so that we could add a bolt-on Internet connectivity module, which meant everyone in the company got their own Internet address. But clients talked MS MAPI to the MS Mail server on the office NT Server, which then talked some MS protocol to the Internet Email gateway, and _that_ talked POP3 and SMTP to the big scary world of The Internet on their behalf.
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