[ih] Significant milestones in the history of TCP/IP

John Day jeanjour at comcast.net
Thu Sep 17 13:36:01 PDT 2015


Or simply implement host-imp and the NCP.

Why do you need the OS?

> On Sep 17, 2015, at 16:14, Jacob Goense <dugo at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> On 2015-09-17 19:11, jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu wrote:
>> I suspect the only way to say with any certainty how well a network 
>> built out
>> of lots of slow lines, as opposed to a few fast ones, would have worked 
>> is a
>> comprehensive simulation. Which is not likely to happen, of course! ;-)
> 
> Well, there is an ARPAnet IMP in simh now. According to Bob Armstrong..
> 
> "The hooks are in there to allow simh to support the IMP side of the
> 1822 host interface, and the next step would be to recover the OS for
> an ARPAnet era host and then extend the corresponding simulator to talk
> to the IMP simulation."
> 
> 
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