[ih] Autodin II

Miles Fidelman mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
Fri Jan 20 19:13:40 PST 2017



On 1/20/17 9:31 PM, Paul Ruizendaal wrote:
> Many thanks for those clarifications!
>
> The driver code for Autodin II indeed appears significantly more complex than that for Arpanet.
>
> So in late '78, early '79 did Autodin II exist as a network, or was it just a bunch of specs?

It was a procurement.  It never actually got built as a system.  The 
original AUTODIN message system kept getting updated incrementally, and 
traffic kept moving onto email.  There were still pieces of the service 
still in operation as of a few years ago - there still well could be.


>
> And - at that time - was the TCP in use on / proposed for Autodin II the same as that in IEN55?
>
> Paul
>
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