[ih] NIC, InterNIC, and Modelling Administration

[Craig Partridge]

> >I don't believe CYCLADES ever grew beyond 20 hosts.  As to network 
> >research in the US, BBN was DARPA's biggest contractor (still is, I 
> >think), and at least when I was there most of that money was going 
> >into .... network research.  And then there was an awful lot of 
> >money going to a lot of universities, and a lot of corporate 
> >research going on.
> 
> This is interesting and I hadn't thought about it until it was 
> pointed out to me.  But it was the case.  BBN was DARPA's biggest 
> contractor for building and operating the net.  How many days a week 
> could BBN take the net to run experiments on say routing or 
> congestion control etc.  Very quickly, the ARPANET was an operational 
> network to support others research.

When did BBN-NET (net 8) get rolling?  (For those who don't know, net 8
was originally an IMP network that was used as BBN's internal corporate
LAN/WAN).

By the time I showed up in 1983 it was larger (in terms of IMPs) than ARPANET
and was where the testing was done.

Thanks!

Craig