[ih] NCP and TCP implementations

[Bob Hinden]

Leo,

> On Mar 10, 2020, at 10:19 AM, Leo Vegoda <leo at vegoda.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 9:02 AM Bob Hinden via Internet-history
> <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> I later did a TCP implementation for the TAC in H-316 assembly language.
>> Was lots of fun doing 32-bit segment calculations on a machine with 15-bit arithmetic.
> 
> Do you know why the designers of the TAC chose 15-bit arithmetic for it?

No idea, it was the same architecture used for the IMPs, I am sure someone here knows why that machine was picked for the IMP.

Bob

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Leo

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