Daniel Seagraves wrote:
Hey, is the IMP software also what was used to make a
TIP or a TAC, or
were those different?
It was different. TIPs were terminal servers.
I just talked to the two people who brought up the first IMPs at SRI and
UCLA. The earliest ones booted from paper tape. Once there was critical mass
BBN added a boot rom board, and the software was remote loaded from them
or from a neighboring IMP (they all ran the same version of the software).