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Yes, I remember some backhoe incidents, perhaps the same ones. ;-) Funny, IP at the time seemed very clunky and verbose to those of us used to the concision of
by cpr 14y ago
Yes, I remember some backhoe incidents, perhaps the same ones. ;-)
Funny, IP at the time seemed very clunky and verbose to those of us used to the concision of WANs like the pre-IP ARPAnet host-to-host protocols, and I remember the massive hair involved in the first DEC-20/TENEX implementations of TCP/IP. It took a while before people really understood TCP/IP enough to implement it well. (Some of the faster, smaller implementations first came out of Dave Clark's group at LCS, he being one of the designers of IP.)
- hga 14y agoClunky and verbose by comparison indeed, but at least it was to a purpose. I can remember the day/night? the ARPAnet turned off the old "NCP" protocol, and from MIT-Multics we were able to e.g. ping a machine in Norway. What's really impressive is how it's stood the test of time, albeit with critical implementation improvements like Van Jacobson's flow control (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jacobson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jacobson). But we did have to scramble for quite a while.