Re: Blast from the past

[John Stracke <francis at ecal.com>]

Jeff Weisberg wrote:

> quoth perry at piermont.com:
>
> | I'm curious when HOSTS.TXT finally died completely.
>
> My memory isn't what it used to be, but at rochester.edu, I'm
> thinking it had to be in use until at least 89 or 90.

It was in use on the math department Sun workstations when I was at University of Chicago in
1990-91.

I think it was also on the campus-wide machines, too; at least, I remember having access to
two different versions of the file, one much larger than the other (but not actually a
superset).

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