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With the editor's comments -- -- Internet still reshaping history
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 09:54:52 -0400
I am sending out this flawed set of nodes on the network's development is hope, may be vain hope, that I don't have to go through this game it again in a few years. A history of the ARPANET and Internet are too often shaped by those who were still alive and wish to establish a claim, valid or not, to place in history. Dave
Begin forwarded message: From: Craig Partridge <craig () aland bbn com> Date: September 8, 2009 9:02:46 AM EDT To: Richard Bennett <richard () bennett com> Cc: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Internet still reshaping history
I think the idea that the ARPANET was an early-stage Internet comes=20=20 about because the hardware and comms infrastructure that made ARPANET=20=20 work was later appropriated by the TCP/IP Internet. In some places, it=20==20was just a software upgrade that turned an ARPANET IMP into an IP=20=20 router, and people continued to use the name "ARPANET" for many years=20=20after TCP came along.
Some corrections.IMP hardware never became routers. IMPs were on honeywell processors and
then BBN custom hardware. The first routers were on PDP-11s and then LSI-11s and then various platforms but, as best I can determine, no one built a router on a PSN. (Side note: the reason one had to turn NCP off to force the TCP/IP conversion was that NCP was built into the IMPs). People carefully distinguished between ARPANET and the Internet from the time I joined the community in 1983 until the ARPANET was turned off. Thanks! Craig ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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