Retro networking / WAN communities

[Wayne S]

Paul said “ Yes, except that historically speaking this is not accurate; routers predate Ethernet by 10 years or so.”

Wiki says ethernet became commercially available in 1980 and invented in 1973. So if enet was 1980 what were routers routing 10 years earlier in 1970?

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> On Apr 12, 2022, at 08:48, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> Grant Taylor wrote:
>> My understanding is that 4.3BSD that ran on VAXes had support for NCP.
> 
> 4.3BSD released in 1986 was long after ARPANET switched from NCP to
> TCP/IP.  Apparently early TCP/IP support was added to 4.1a in 1981.
> I'm going out on a limb to claim BSD never had NCP support.