3 Aug
1998
3 Aug
'98
8:19 a.m.
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:
[IMP?]
That means Interface Messaging Prcessor.
For connecting things to the ARPAnet.
Not sure what it did, but it's mentioned in the ITS arcana...
Back in the day before standards (late 60s) the designers of the Arpanet
decided they needed a uniform network interface that all the different
computer systems of the time could connect to. The IMP was that
interface. It was actually a computer itself that acted as a gateway,
passing data to and from the host computer from the nascent Internet. It
handled the protocol conversion, etc.
It was the equivalent of a NIC today.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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