[retrochallenge] Re: Remote hosts rule ...

  • From: "Goodwin, Greg P." <GoodwinG@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <retrochallenge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 12:31:16 -0500

        It's a grey area for sure.  But the "persistant connections"
wording clears it up a bit.  In other words, a computer that you have
more or less direct control of or through.

        Sounds good for a start.

Greg Goodwin
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-----Original Message-----
From: retrochallenge-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:retrochallenge-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Byron Q.
Desnoyers Winmill
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 12:25 PM
To: retrochallenge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [retrochallenge] Remote hosts rule ...

In order to demonstrate the utility of legacy systems in the modern
world, a computer must use remote services.  This was also common
throughout the 1980's and early 1990's as people started getting
online via a diverse number of networks.

On the otherhand, the capabilities offered by these remote systems
could far exceed the capacity of any computer system of that era
(as an example, I have used one of the top 500 supercomputers via
SSH)) so certain restrictions should be in place.  I propose the
following restrictions.

- You cannot login to a non-qualifying system in your home.

- There are no restrictions on non-persistent connections (eg. HTTP).
- You are restricted to character based sessions for persistent
  connections (eg. Remote Desktop, VNC, and X11 do not qualify)

Comments or suggestions?

Byron.


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