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

Lars Brinkhoff lars at nocrew.org
Sat Jan 2 00:17:33 PST 2021


>> 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."
>>>
>>> anyone got more "history" here on this...¿¿¿
>>
>> I have seen this story many times, but no evidence to back it up.
> This slide points to USC:

Tom Lipkis remembers:

 | Yes, we had mazewar running on Imlacs at USC, and yes, we played over
 | the Arpanet with people at MIT.  I don't remember overloading the
 | network - we were off campus and, I think, dialing in to the USC-TIP,
 | so we were way more bandwidth-limited than the 50kbps Arpanet of the
 | time.  What I do remember is that the latency put us at a
 | disadvantage.  Someone could come around a corner, shoot, and retreat
 | before we saw the update.



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