2 Jun
2014
2 Jun
'14
3:35 p.m.
In article <EDF62337-2E85-4B79-B2C2-B923767081ED at comcast.net>,
Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> writes:
On May 27, 2014, at 7:30 AM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com> wrote:
RFC600 describes attaching a plato terminal to the arpanet in
November, 1973. <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc600>
This claims PLATO was on the ARPANET for 10 years:
<http://www.platohistory.org/about/>
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1972 is a key date because that's when PLATO
went on the ARPANET, and
software could be more widely distributed. This was also the first year
that Spacewar was written for a home computer in BYTE Magazine. 1977 was
the release of the arcade version and publication of a version for the
Altair 8080.
PLATO on the ARPANET? Um, no. PLATO eventually showed up on the Internet,
but that wasn't until much later.