Retro networking / WAN communities

[Paul Koning]

Yes, that's the way the term was used by DEC.

There have long been many things in our business that were called by multiple names.  Gateway is one (router, protocol translator).  Dataset (modem or file), file (file as we know it, disk drive) are other examples.

	paul


> On Apr 12, 2022, at 2:01 PM, Wayne S <wayne.sudol at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> 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?
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> 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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