[ih] Internet-history Digest, Vol 5, Issue 7

[Elizabeth Feinler]

Check with Marc Weber at the Co muter History Museum.  I think hey have a full set of maps or at least a lot of them.

Cheers,

Jake

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>   1. Re: how big was the host file (reed at reedmedia.net)
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> On Thu, 6 Feb 2020, Lars Brinkhoff via Internet-history wrote:
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>> alphabetical order, and the second is in numerical-ish order.
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>> There are 66 unique host numbers, of which 14 are TIPs.
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> Can you share this 1973 MIT hosts file? I'd like to compare its entries 
> with the following RFCs.
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> Oct 1971 RFC 252 lists 25 hosts by number (with no unique names there).
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> Dec 1971 RFC 289 lists 45 "formal" names (one without a network address)
> and 16 nicknames.
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> Aug 1972 RFC 384 lists 70 site "idents" (with a few with multiple 
> identifiers).
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> Dec 1973 RFC 597 lists 81 hosts and 9 upcoming hosts with their 
> hostnames.
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> By the way, where are the two 1973 maps (geographic and logical) for RFC 
> 597 / NIC 20826? Anyone have those 1973 images scanned?
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