Questions tagged [network]
Regarding retrocomputing networks, connections and protocols.
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Did ARPANET hosts have some kind of name resolving before 1974?
I'm trying to complete some information on the history of DNS and name resolution in networking. I've found some information on ARPANET and BBN's protocols relying on the numerical machine code for ...
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Why would email transmission change the 6-char sequence "0rom "?
According to the Ubuntu uuencode manpage: Specifically, email cannot handle binary data and will often even insert a character when the six character sequence "0rom " is seen.
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How did the AOL software provide internet access to other applications running on Windows 95/98?
During the late 1990s, I (and countless others) accessed the internet by running software provided by America Online (mailed to my house on free CD-ROMs) and using a dial-up modem to access their ...
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Atari SIO vs IEEE 488
When Atari was designing the 800 series of computers, they needed a way to connect peripherals. To comply with FCC regulations on RF emission, it needed shielded cables. To achieve low cost of entry ...
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What systems actually used the ACCT command in FTP?
FTP has a USER command for sending the user name and a PASS command for sending the password. It also has an ACCT command, as RFC 959 page 26 explains:
ACCOUNT (ACCT)
The argument field is a ...
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What did corporations use for long-distance networks in the 1980s?
Although ARPANET was invented in 1969, the Internet as publicly available infrastructure didn't really become available until 1989. But people were certainly using computers as communication tools in ...
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How can I communicate with a Nintendo DS using the Download Play protocol?
Would it be possible to use a Nintendo DS's Download Play feature over the Internet? I don't have a ton of understanding of how the protocol works, but so far I'm pretty sure it uses a network of ...
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IBM RS/6000 Token Ring ISA card not operational
After solving a configuration challenge, the ISA Token Ring adapter in my RS/6000 is still not connected to the ring.
Extract from errpt -a:
LABEL: NONE
IDENTIFIER: 0118D2D0
Date/Time: ...
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IBM RS/6000 Token Ring ISA card fails configuration
The system at hand is a RS/6000 7248-100, running AIX 4.3.3.
My quest is to get a Token Ring ISA card to work. The card is a 2971 as called for by the docs.
SMS is happy with the card. I've set the ...
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Origin of Cisco-like CLI?
Loads and wagons of networking devices all over the world use the same manner for commandline interface (CLI). First I met it in 1990s at Cisco devices (switches, routers...) which used Cisco IOS. It ...
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Was there an equivalent to TELNET in the IPX/SPX protocol suite?
It seems logically like there would be, but I can't find much information.
I found an IBM AS/400 manual from 1997, OS/400 Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) Support V4R1, which briefly mentions using ...
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did people already connect computer with other computers (like a LAN/Intranet) before ARPANET/NPL that sparked the Internet? [closed]
As far as I understand ARPANET and NPL shared the goal to make data transmission scalable and reliable over large distances between many computers/networks. Of course to make the internet today, ...
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How can SPI be used with a Z80 CPU to control an RFM95 LoRa module?
I’m trying to communicate with my Z80 computer (RC2014) using a wireless radio. The easy way to do this is to use something like an ESP8266 (and there’s even an RC2014 module for this), but where’s ...
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Novell and DOS instant messaging
Long ago, there was a TSR that would allow instant messages to be sent and received between DOS based computers using a Novell network. I think it was called Noteworks.
It had a little airplane that ...
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Windows/lanman shares ending with $ are invisible - where did this come from?
(Inspired by a comment in an answer about CLOCK$ which says: the 'symbols with a dollar sign are reserved to us' was also a DEC convention, certainly on RSX-11M systems)
In Windows, network shares ...
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