[ih] IETF relevance (was Memories of Flag Day?)

John Day jeanjour at comcast.net
Wed Aug 30 19:21:51 PDT 2023


yea, I was going to say . . . DEC was always pretty wired in to the ARPANET and beyond.

> On Aug 30, 2023, at 21:38, vinton cerf via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> official DEC fought like hell but research DEC got TCP somehow for
> KL-10s/-20s.
> Don't know whether they used the TENEX version or made their own? VAX was
> probably a different story.
> 
> v
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 6:20 PM Dave Crocker via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/30/2023 6:14 PM, Vint Cerf via Internet-history wrote:
>>> IBM research did TCP/IP as well as HP and DEC.
>> 
>> Hmmm.  DEC came to TCP/IP only in the late 1980s and only in fits and
>> starts, after fighting TCP/IP quite vigorously.  Note, for example, that
>> Wollongong made a lot of money selling an aftermarket stack for VMS.
>> 
>> d/
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