10 Oct
2002
10 Oct
'02
11:48 a.m.
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?
--f