29 Oct
2019
29 Oct
'19
7:47 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 4:38 PM Rich Alderson via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
From: Liam Proven
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 10:01 AM
NCP was the immediate predecessor of TCP/IP. Was that the datagram format,
more or less, 50 years ago?
Warner
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 at 17:32, Chuck Guzis via
cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 50 years ago, inter-computer communication
was common enough that it was
> a standard option in most vendors' catalogs.
> Maybe you've got a digit wrong?
Tim Berners-Lee says it's the 50th
anniversary of the first internet
packets. I believe him more than pretty much anyone.
It's also in multiple computer news stories
today.
The historic event was comms between heterogenous
computers over a
standardised protocol (IP, I think).
Internet Protocol (IP) was developed in the very late 1970s, with the
cutover
of the ARPANET taking place 1/1/83.
Prior to that, the underlying protocol was the one developed by Kleinrock
et al.
for the BBN IMP hardware.
Quit splitting hairs, folks.
New to this list, are you?
Rich