[ih] Historical fiction

[Vint Cerf]

the resource sharing paper by Larry Roberts and Barry Wessler (circa
SJCC or FJCC 1970) might also be useful.

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On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>    > From: "Sytel" <sytel at shaw.ca>
>
>    > What did one of the old packets actually look like? We haven't been
>    > able to do much except extrapolate from modern packets.
>
> I wasn't there in the earliest days, but I can answer this for you (so that
> others can focus on the stuff only they can provide, such as memories of
> actual events).
>
> I thought this was all available online in early RFCs, but looking at the
> list, I don't see anything likely. I will scan and OCR all this stuff in from
> various sources (e.g. BBN Report 1822), and throw up a web page (so it's
> easily accessible in the future). Give me a couple of hours.
>
> In the meantime, if you're interested in the technical details of how the
> _network itself_ operated (as opposed to the host-host communication, and
> the early applications), you should get ahold of:
>
>  F.E. Heart, R.E. Kahn, S.M. Ornstein,  W.R. Crowther, and D.C. Walden,
>        "The interface message processor for the ARPA computer network",
>        Proceedings AFIPS 1970 SJCC, Vol. 36, pp. 551-567.
>
>  J.M. McQuillan, W.R. Crowther, B.P. Cosell, D.C. Walden, and F.E. Heart,
>        "Improvements in the Design and Performance of the ARPA Network",
>        Proceedings AFIPS 1972 FJCC, Vol. 40, pp. 741-754.
>
> which will give you a pretty complete picture (in a lot more detail than
> you want to know, probably :-).
>
>        Noel