When I was on ITS, I just implemented SUPDUP in my terminal. It made Emacs usable at 300 baud. That protocol is a nice piece of engineering.
I got a big dose of Telecoms standards early in my career, including some X.25 and networking stuff. After the clarity and simplicity of SUPDUP, my reaction to Big Standards could best be described as "allergic".
[Marshall Rose and Michael Padlipski are good reading on this subject. To this day I use the word "octet" as an epithet]
I got a big dose of Telecoms standards early in my career, including some X.25 and networking stuff. After the clarity and simplicity of SUPDUP, my reaction to Big Standards could best be described as "allergic".
[Marshall Rose and Michael Padlipski are good reading on this subject. To this day I use the word "octet" as an epithet]
use standards
not too many
mostly plain ones