29 Oct
2019
29 Oct
'19
10:15 a.m.
On 29/10/2019, Murray McCullough via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote (in part):
The first inter-computer communication happened 50
years ago today. L.
Kleinrock part of that historic moment, said, and I paraphrase here,
ARPANET was the instrument that was to enable computers to talk to each
other remotely. He sent ?LO? because the system crashed(how surprising was
that!)
According to "Where Wizards stay up late", the FEP crashed because of
an "optimization" that stuffed "gin" into the buffer faster than the
FEP could handle it.
N.