UUCP was originally written at AT&T Bell Laboratories by Mike Lesk. By 1978 it was in use on 82 UNIX machines inside the Bell system, primarily for software distribution. It was … See more

Before the widespread availability of Internet access, computers were only connected by smaller local area networks within a company or organization. They were also often … See more

Many UUCP hosts, particularly those at universities, were also connected to the Internet in its early years, and e-mail gateways between Internet SMTP-based mail and UUCP mail were developed. A user at a system with UUCP connections could thereby … See more

UUCP usage began to die out with the rise of Internet service providers offering inexpensive SLIP and PPP services. The UUCP Mapping Project was formally shut down in late 2000. See more

The uucp and uuxqt capabilities could be used to send email between machines, with suitable mail user interfaces and delivery agent … See more

UUCPNET was the name for the totality of the network of computers connected through UUCP. This network was very informal, maintained in a spirit of mutual cooperation between … See more

uux is remote command execution over UUCP. The uux command is used to execute a command on a remote system, or to execute a … See more