[gurps] Internet on blue planet and like worlds

[Tom Sparks]

a lot of the cluster's colonys can be joined with digital radio network

cluster to cluster communication is via satellite

in storms the satellites well not be able to communicate to the cluster's transceiver dish for 24 / 48 hours even more


----- Original Message ----
From: David Scheidt <dmscheidt at gmail.com>
To: The GURPSnet mailing list <gurpsnet-l at sjgames.com>
Sent: Saturday, 27 December, 2008 2:16:23 AM
Subject: Re: [gurps] Internet on blue planet and like worlds

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Bret Indrelee <bret at io.com> wrote:
> On Dec 26, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Tom Sparks wrote:
>>
>> i am borrowing ideas from Interplanetary Internet
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet), BBS
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system) and fidoNet
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet)
>
> If you want some other background for solutions used in the bad old days of
> modems and long distance charges, I would suggest you read up on UUCP (Unix
> to Unix Copy) which was used to forward newsfeeds and e-mail.

UUCP is still around.  Still works great.  It lets you do a number of
useful things, like start a process after the file has finished
transfering, which solves a bunch of problems.

I humbly suggest, though, that for communicating between fixed points,
that fiber optic cables make more sense.

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