[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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