UUCP

Proper noun

Meaning

UUCP

(computing, Internet) Initialism of Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol, a file transfer protocol used on networks, traditionally for Usenet and e-mail transfers.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Africa At the beginning of the 1990s, African countries relied upon X.25 IPSS and 2400 baud modem UUCP links for international and internetwork computer communications. Source: Internet

Following public release of the software in 1980, the mesh of UUCP hosts forwarding on the Usenet news rapidly expanded. Source: Internet

At the time, it was a complement to Unix to Unix Copy Program (UUCP) mail, which was better suited for handling email transfers between machines that were intermittently connected. Source: Internet

There are reports of spontaneous Internet ( UUCP and telnet ) connections "from home" through X.25 in the USSR in as early as 1988. Source: Internet

By 1981 the number of UUCP hosts had grown to 550, nearly doubling to 940 in 1984. Source: Internet

Sites with only intermittent connections used UUCP or FidoNet and relied on the gateways between these networks and the Internet. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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