[ih] byte order, was Octal vs Hex, not Re: Dotted decimal notation

[Lars Brinkhoff]

Geoff Goodfellow wrote:
> the MIT PDP-10 reference must be of Al Vezza's MIT-DM host, but yours truly
> is kinda perplexed over the last sentence of:
>
> "Mazewar games between MIT and Stanford were a major data load on the
> early Arpanet."
>
> wondering just what host at Stanford this must have been -- if not SU-AI --
> which yours truly recalls had a couple of Imlac's -- one of which was at
> JMC's (John McCarthy's) house and other at RWW's (Richard Weyhrauch's)
> house -- both of which were connected with 1200 baud leased lines... hardly
> big enough to "contribute" to "a major data load on the early Arpanet." --
> most especially given that JMC &/ RWW didn't seem to be the mazewar playing
> kinda folks...
>
> anyone got more "history" here on this...¿¿¿

I have seen this story many times, but no evidence to back it up.

It seems DEC WRL's MazeWar for X10/X11/Sunview is one source for the
claim.  The manpage says "MazeWar first appeared at MIT in the early
1970s, using IMLAC displays and the ArpaNet network.  Legend has it
that, at one point during that period, MazeWar was banned by DARPA from
the ArpaNet because half of all the packets in a given month were
MazeWar packets flying between Stanford and MIT."