[ih] First Eurociscos [was Ethernet, was Why TCP]

[Dave Crocker]

On 9/3/2016 12:13 PM, John Day wrote:
> No reason either one should have been on the Internet in the 1980s. Neither one was a DoD contractor or had grant money from DoD.


Adding to Jack's posting:


There are some factual problems with the above view.

First, the DoD requirement was removed, at least by the /early/ 1980s, 
such as with NSF's CSnet effort starting in 1981.  (I don't know the 
start dates for The Little Garden, but The World is listed as 1989 in 
Wikipedia.)

While I was at DEC in the late 80s (doing tech transfer, because DEC 
finally realized they needed to support TCP/IP across the company's 
product efforts) my support was from the Field Engineering folks and 
there was a critical moment when they decided it was a competitive 
requirement to be able to support regular customers across the Internet; 
one of their arguments was that their competitors were already doing it. 
  Getting around the AUP was a task, not a showstopper.  Again, this was 
pre-1990.

Then there's the difference between 'the Internet' and "TCP/IP 
products", where enterprises had gotten the interoperability bug -- 
mostly thanks to OSI marketing efforts -- and found that only TCP/IP 
could solve it...

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
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