[ih] Johnny Eriksson

[vinton cerf]

thanks so much for that clarification, Barbara!

Great to see your name in the thread.

v


On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 8:41 PM Barbara Denny via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

>  Don Provan asked me to clarify that he wrote the TCP/IP implementation
> for TOPS-10 used by Johnny Eriksson. Johnny Eriksson  took that code and
> made it work on KICKI.  FYI, Don wrote the TCP/IP code for the TCP/IP
> cutover when he worked as a DEC contractor at Wright Paterson Air Force
> Base for AFWAL (Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratory).
> barbara
>
>     On Friday, August 28, 2020, 8:53:38 AM PDT, Lars Brinkhoff via
> Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
>  Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> writes:
> >> Another Scandinavian Internet pioneer also died earlier this year:
> >> Johnny Eriksson. He helped build the Swedish TCP/IP networks in the
> >> 1980s and 1990s.
> >
> > please tell us more about Johnny.
>
> Johnny Eriksson worked at QZ in Stockholm, which provided centralized
> computing services in the 70s and 80s.  He was also active in the
> student organization Stacken, which was a hotbed of PDP-10 machines and
> all sorts of ad-hoc networking.  Johnny was recuited to KTHNOC, the
> network operating center at Royal Institute of Technology, and the hub
> for SUNET, the Swedish University Network.  Later he went to SWIPNET,
> the first commercial IP network in Sweden.
>
> Johnny added TCP/IP to TOPS-10 for Stacken's dual KI10, called KICKI.
>
> Sources: the article "De byggde Internet i Sverige" (They build Internet
> in Sweden), and messages from Peter Löthberg.
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