[ih] ARPAnet Type 3 packets (datagrams)

[Bernie Cosell]

On 26 Nov 2009 at 12:34, John Day wrote:

> The Xmas lockup I was referring to (which I believe I heard the 
> details of the story from Ari) was that at the NMC at UCLA just 
> before the left the lab on xmas eve and being 3 hours behind the East 
> Coast thought this was as close to a quiet net that they would ever 
> see.  So they told all the IMPs to send stat messages to the NMC. 
> The IMP in front of the Sigma ended up with several partially 
> reassembled messages and not enough room to finish any of them.  This 
> would have been 71 or 72.
> 
> I thought it was after that reserving a message at the destination 
> IMP was put in.

I don't remember that incident, but I don't think so -- I'm pretty sure 
that the "reserve 8" machinery was in the first versions of the IMP code.

  /Bernie\
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