10 Oct
2002
10 Oct
'02
12:54 p.m.
On 10/10/02, Fred N. van Kempen scribbled:
Yeah, built by BBN. They didn't really say in the show what they
based on, though...
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Yeah, even my
wife enjoyed it!
Sadly, we don't get it in Europe... *sigh* Anyone got a
taped
copy?
So, the IMPs they built would be the first
network interface,
right? The precurser to the present-day NIC.
Well, no.. IMP's connected a
local(-ish) network to the remote
(-ish) network, usually over a slow(-ish ;-) WAN link like a
56K switched circuit. You could see them as the first series
of protocol-converting gateways, though.
Werent they built by BBN, and based on PDP-11(/23's) with the
Fuzzball software load image?