[ih] History of IoT

[Michael Thomas]

On 2/13/23 5:04 PM, Greg Skinner wrote:
> (Hoping this will reach the internet-history list)
>
> Perhaps the TCP implementation by Geof Cooper in this excerpt of a Usenet mod.protocols.tcp-ip thread [1] is more along the lines of what you’re looking for.  He mentions using it to allow Imagen to boot its image processors using arpa-ftp.  I couldn’t find anything definitive about Imagen’s image processors around that time (1986) via googling, but I remember we had Imagen printers at SRI around then that had enough of a UDP implementation that one could get something like Unix “uptime” from them using it.
>
> [1] https://www.linux.co.cr/unix-source-code/review/1986/0513.htm

Oh cool! We originally used Dec's MOP protocol on our terminal servers 
that we were working on but eventually supported bootp and tftp (I don't 
recall that we used ftp). I take it they weren't using it to get the 
images on/off the processors?

Mike