50 yrs. ago today

Nemo cym224 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 29 12:15:28 CDT 2019


On 29/10/2019, Murray McCullough via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote (in part):
> The first inter-computer  communication happened 50 years ago today. L.
> Kleinrock part of that historic moment, said, and I paraphrase here,
> ARPANET was the instrument that was to enable computers to talk to each
> other remotely. He sent “LO” because the system crashed(how surprising was
> that!)

According to "Where Wizards stay up late", the FEP crashed because of
an "optimization" that stuffed "gin" into the buffer faster than the
FEP could handle it.

N.


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