With the editor's comments -- -- Internet still reshaping history

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

I am sending out this flawed set of nodes on the network's development  
is hope, may be vain hope, that I don't have to go through this game  
it again in a few years. A history of the ARPANET and Internet are too  
often shaped by those who were still alive and wish to establish a  
claim, valid or not, to place in history. Dave

Begin forwarded message:

From: Craig Partridge <craig () aland bbn com>
Date: September 8, 2009 9:02:46 AM EDT
To: Richard Bennett <richard () bennett com>
Cc: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Internet still reshaping history

> I think the idea that the ARPANET was an early-stage Internet  
> comes=20=20
> about because the hardware and comms infrastructure that made  
> ARPANET=20=20
> work was later appropriated by the TCP/IP Internet. In some places,  
> it=20=
> =20
> was just a software upgrade that turned an ARPANET IMP into an  
> IP=20=20
> router, and people continued to use the name "ARPANET" for many  
> years=20=20
> after TCP came along.

Some corrections.

IMP hardware never became routers.  IMPs were on honeywell processors  
and
then BBN custom hardware.  The first routers were on PDP-11s and then
LSI-11s and then various platforms but, as best I can determine, no one
built a router on a PSN.  (Side note: the reason one had to turn NCP off
to force the TCP/IP conversion was that NCP was built into the IMPs).

People carefully distinguished between ARPANET and the Internet from the
time I joined the community in 1983 until the ARPANET was turned off.

Thanks!

Craig




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