[ih] Significant milestones in the history of TCP/IP

Jacob Goense dugo at xs4all.nl
Thu Sep 17 13:14:20 PDT 2015


On 2015-09-17 19:11, jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu wrote:
> I suspect the only way to say with any certainty how well a network 
> built out
> of lots of slow lines, as opposed to a few fast ones, would have worked 
> is a
> comprehensive simulation. Which is not likely to happen, of course! ;-)

Well, there is an ARPAnet IMP in simh now. According to Bob Armstrong..

"The hooks are in there to allow simh to support the IMP side of the
1822 host interface, and the next step would be to recover the OS for
an ARPAnet era host and then extend the corresponding simulator to talk
to the IMP simulation."






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