Noong Lun, Mar 20, 2006 ng 11:15:45AM +0800, sinabi ni Miguel A Paraz: > I'm writing some recollections of the origins of Philippine Internet - > as the 12th anniversary of "live" Internet is coming up on the 29th. > > Does anyone around at the beginning care to share how Linux was used?
At UP Manila, the first college to use Linux in any capacity was the College of Public Health in 1994. Dr. Noel Lawas hired me and Dr. Cito Maramba to work on a solution to provide shared CD-ROM access for the CPH Library under a project funded by FRG-GTZ. We used Linux (Slackware 1.2(?) initially, then Slackware 2.0) to provide NFS shared CD-ROMs to DOS clients which used the crynwyr TCP/IP packet drivers and a shareware NFS implementation for DOS. We also provided dialup access to our Linux boxen to CPH users. Our favorite network testing software in DOS consisted of NCSA Telnet/FTP, the shareware version of DOOM and Linux on our servers. We would install the DOS TCP/IP packet drivers and NCSA Telnet/FTP on the client machines, assign each a static IP address, telnet over to lagundi or sambong (we named all the CPH machines after known local herbal medicines) then ftp the DOOM zip files over the wire to the DOS machines. One of us would always be left at the server room to monitor what was happening, so for coordination, we would log in to lagundi either at the console or via telnet and ytalk with each other. After installing DOOM on the DOS boxen, we would ytalk or write to get a game started on the Linux boxen and we would play a round of DOOM in cooperative mode. Those were the days... :) Later on, when UPM Chancellor Perla Santos-Ocampo decided to get on ramp with the Internet at the urging of University Librarian Rosvida Rosal for the DOST-ESEP Library project, I was asked to set up UPM's first servers. Now, that is another story. -- ___ Eric Pareja (xenos AT upm.edu.ph) | Information Management Service [IMS] \e/ Network and Systems Administrator | University of the Philippines Manila _v_ [ http://www.upm.edu.ph/~xenos ][GPG: B82E42D9][http://tinyurl.com/68dkm] "Ang hindi marunong magmahal ng sariling wika ay higit pa sa malansang isda."
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