<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">ARPANET had adaptive routing from the start. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This question is more about what people were doing and thinking in the 1969-1971 time frame, not events almost 10 years or more later.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">John<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 13, 2015, at 13:21, Bill Ricker <<a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" class="">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:46 AM, John Day <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:jeanjour@comcast.net" target="_blank" class="">jeanjour@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I think the nuclear war meme is really more tightly associated with the Internet than the ARPANET. </blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Hmm, that makes sense. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">(D)ARPAnet initially had fixed routing, not useful in damage-prone environment.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">It was TCP/IP that introduced adaptive routing around damage. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">(USEnet evolved adaptive routing, i don't recall how that was related .)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Also note that the Military nearly adopted the ISO OSI protocol stack not the TCP/IP Internet stack, even though DARPA had subsidized the (pre-Web/NSF/NSCC) development ! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class="">Bill Ricker<br class=""><a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a><div class=""><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux" target="_blank" class="">https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux</a> <br class=""></div></div></div>
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