[ih] Another birthday?

[Craig Partridge]

Hi Steve:

Would this have been on the PSAT (Pluribus Satellite IMP) or the attached
routers, or both?  If the attached router, any memory of which one?  The
older BBN (Strasizar) routers were being phased out in 1981 for the new
BBN (Hinden/Brescia) routers/mailbridges (firewalls).

Thanks!

Craig

PS: Folks on the list may be interested to know that the January-March 2006
issue of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing is a special edition on
BBN and includes a history of post-ARPANET networking work at BBN written
by Steve Blumenthal and myself (with *lots* of help).

In message <20060330171145.R98792 at ash.packetdesign.com>, Stephen Casner writes:

>On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>
>> I'd love to hear about any other multi-protocol router (i.e. a single box
>> which handled multiple protocols in parallel - so-called "Ships in the Night
 >"
>> - *not* wrapping, which was already a common idea, with the X.25 stuff) work
>> in the '80-'81 timeframe.
>
>Does ST (Stream Protocol, identified as 5 in the same bit positions as
>the IP version) count?  That was done in 1981 for packet speech work
>on the Wideband Satellite Network.
>
>                                                        -- Steve