Retro networking / WAN communities

[Wayne S]

Good clarification. 
In my day, gateway was some unique device or software that provided access to a service or another non-standard device.
Think a device that dials out to batch send information to a specific service. 
Router meant networking within the company.
Different times.

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> On Apr 12, 2022, at 10:49, Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> On Apr 12, 2022, at 1:20 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>>> On 4/12/22 10:11 AM, Wayne S wrote:
>>> 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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>> I feel like IMPs were "routing" and could be considered "routers" long before Ethernet was a thing.
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> Exactly.  For that matter, DECnet included routing before Ethernet came out (in Phase III, with DDCMP links).  And Typeset-11 did routing before DECnet did, starting around 1977.
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> I think the term used in the IMP days was "gateway" but by today's terminology they are routers.
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>    paul
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