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Re: NSF and the Birth of the Internet


From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:39:29 -0400



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From: Dave Crocker <dhc2 () dcrocker net>
Date: August 19, 2008 7:25:33 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:     NSF and the Birth of the Internet
Reply-To: dcrocker () bbiw net


Note that MIT's ITS machines were online under TCP on the flag day, which was NOT true of berkeley unix


UDel got a contract from Arpa to do Arpanet(ncp)/Internet(tcp) email relaying, in anticipation of transition "challenges". We were running BSD and the gateway was operational before flag day.

That means that BSD had TCP significantly before the January, 1983 flag day.

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 Dave Crocker
 Brandenburg InternetWorking
 bbiw.net




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